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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
Morning Doodle: "Is that why you push so hard for the new factories we're building?"

Zoya gave the barest shrug. (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11)
August 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Morning Doodle: “Hopeless. Hungry. Desperation makes people do ugly things, and it is always the girls who suffer first.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
July 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
No Morning Doodle today, just tryina stay afloat right now, but hopefully I’ll have some time to doodle next week!
July 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Morning Doodle: “I grew up in a place like this,” Zoya said as they entered the next bleak backwater. (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)

Artist Notes: I really just wanted to draw baby Zoya on her way home with a bag of stolen peaches and a chicken of unknown origin.
July 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Morning Doodle: “The people would not think of the priest when they said their prayers and heard the church bells chime. They would think of their golden king and whisper of the day he’d come to their village.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
July 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Morning Doodle: Portrait of a Steel-Spined Harpy
June 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Morning Doodle: He vowed to build a new church there, paid for with Lantsov gold.

“And where will all the money actually come from?” Zoya asked that night.

“The Kerch? My wealthy new bride? Maybe the Apparat can sell off a fancy altarpiece.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
June 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Morning Doodle: “In Ryevost, where the great earthqake had struck, Nikolai stripped down to his shirtsleeves to work side by side with the men of the town, moving rubble and raising beams.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11)
June 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Morning Doodle: “Though he and Zoya took pains to hide the urgency of their mission, they rode hard each day and never spent more than a single night in any location.”(Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11)
June 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Morning Doodle: Keeping Secrets and Hiding Schemes

Artist Notes: Back to Regularly Scheduled Weekly Friday Brainrot!
May 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM