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Morning Doodle: “Of course it has,” said Nikolai, “But such displays are beyond even the Apparat’s considerable reach. It pains my pride to say it, but there may be something at work here that’s bigger than both of us.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
January 24, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Morning Doodle: “Has it ever occured to you,” Zoya said, watching the skinny monk talk animatedly to a beleaguered-looking Tolya, “That this is all contrivance?” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
January 17, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Morning Doodle: “They’d let Yuri emerge from the coach to stretch his legs and see the supposed miracle site, Tolya towering over him like one tree that had refused to fall.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
January 10, 2026 at 3:50 AM
No Morning Doodle Today! I’ve let my life go awry lately, so I’m taking the week to stitch it back together (getting my car fixed, sorting through paperwork, finishing projects, moving furniture, etc). Will be back next week though, see you then!
January 2, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Morning Doodle: Long-Standing Feud
December 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Morning Doodle: “The trees all lay in the same direction, like bodies laid to rest, as if pointing them west toward the Fold.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
December 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Late Night Doodle: “It was an eerie sight. The smell of sap was heavy in the air, and the trees had fallen in perfect lines all the way to the crest of a hill that overlooked a tiny chapel dedicated to Sankt Ilya in Chains.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
December 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Morning Doodle: “She wore a dress of blooming roses that blossomed and died in curling vines around her body. Her golden hair was a buzzing mass of bees that swarmed and clustered around her radiant face.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 15)
December 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Morning Doodle: “You should poison the choirmaster for inflicting that atrocity on us,” Zoya grumbled. “They were adorable.” “They were flat.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Late Night Doodle: Shapes
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Late Night Doodle: “Zoya and the rest of Nikolai’s party”…“endured the singing of a children’s choir, and then had tea with the local choirmaster.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Late Night Doodle: “Zoya and the rest of Nikolai’s party rode through the barley fields and inspected the new armaments factory” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Late Night Doodle: A Gift for the Grim Reaper
November 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Morning Doodle: The boy in the library…
October 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Morning Doodle: Baby Nikolai looking down the hall as he feeds the dog his last piece of steak
October 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Morning Doodle: “But could she blame her mother? She remembered Sabina’s raw hands, her tired eyes, the gaunt lines of her body—perpetually weary and without hope.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
October 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Morning Doodle: “I dreamed of being a soldier.” “Little Zoya with a bayonet?” Zoya sniffed. “I always had the makings of a general.” But her mother had seen only the value in her daughter’s beauty. Zoya’s face had been her dowry at the tender age of nine. (Bardugo’s KoS CH 11)
October 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Morning Doodle: “I thought the draft was seen as a curse.” “For some,” Zoya conceded. “But for others of us it offered an escape, a chance at something other than being someone’s wife and dying in childbirth.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
September 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Morning Doodle: "Do you know what changed everything in my village?" She kept her eyes on the road, rutted with holes and broken rocks from the previous night's rain. "The draft." (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11)
September 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Morning Doodle: “It was hard not to look at these muddy streets, the gray houses with their warped roofs and slanting porches, the tilting spire of the church, and not think of Pachina, the town she’d left behind. She refused to call it home.” (Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
September 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Morning Doodle: Sturmholdillyscribble
September 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Morning Doodle: Grab!
August 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Morning Doodle: She could sense Nikolai’s scrutiny. “I’ve never known you to have much sympathy for the common people.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
August 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Morning Doodle: Air Pressure
August 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Morning Doodle: Ritual
August 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM