Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Morning Doodle: “Huge hands grasped Zoya’s shoulders, digging into her flesh, lifting her from the ground. She kicked her feet, feeling the terrible sensation of nothing beneath her. Zoya screamed as she was pulled skyward, the rose still clutched in her hand.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11) 010
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Morning Doodle: “Movement on the roof of the cathedral caught Zoya’s eye. She looked up in time to see something massive rushing toward her. It smashed through Lizabeta’s statue, sending petals and shards of stone flying.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11) 021
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Morning Doodle: Though she prefers tea, sometimes an all-nighter requires coffee. 020
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Morning Doodle: Nikolai Gun Design and Holster Reference …Why is there a lipstick mark on the barrel? Who knows, maybe Nikolai jokingly asked Zoya to kiss it for luck the other night and she was drunk enough to oblige. 040
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Morning Doodle: Now she looked nothing but annoyed. “Of course I do. Who else would I rather have my back in a fight?” (Leigh Bardugo’s Rule of Wolves CH 23, taken out of context) 042
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Morning Doodle: “I am going to kill you.” “So long as you kiss me again before you do.” (Leigh Bardugo’s Rule of Wolves CH 46) *Quote taken out of context, but I think we all know they would say this on the regular 041
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Morning Doodle: “Everything about this place set her teeth on edge. It felt as if something was watching her from the domes of the cathedral, from the shadows of the trees.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11) 120
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Morning Doodle: “Do you think Lizabeta was willing to be pulled apart? How about Demyan when he was stoned to death? Or Ilya, chained and thrown into a river to drown?”(Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11) 0115
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Morning Doodle: “And this is the woman who is supposed to be answering the people’s prayers.” Zoya snapped a rose from its stem, ignoring the horrified gasp of the local priest. Its scent was cloying.“ (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11) 0228
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Morning Doodle: “They had her drawn and quartered. It was said the roses turned red with her blood.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11) 031
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Morning Doodle: “The villagers to the north demanded Lizabeta repeat this miracle and save their town too” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11) 011
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Morning Doodle: “When they charged her, she fell to her knees in prayer, and it was the bees that answered, rising from the blossoms to attack the soldiers in a swarm.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11) 011
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Morning Doodle: “While the men of her town cowered, Lizabeta faced the soldiers in a field of white roses and begged them to show mercy.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11) 053
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Morning Doodle: Super full work schedule this weekend! I’m gonna have to re-arrange my priorities a bit to fix my awful work/life balance and sleep schedule. 020
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Morning Doodle: “She was only eighteen when raiders came to West Ravka’s shore, pillaging and burning every village they encountered.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11) 010
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Morning Doodle: Custom Eye Masks and Silk Pillowcovers 020
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Morning Doodles: “What was Lizabeta’s story?” Nikolai asked. His voice was taut, but the others didn’t seem to notice. “It is both beautiful and tragic,” Yuri said enthusiastically. Zoya wanted to knock him into the roses.“Aren’t all martyrdoms built to look that way?”(KoS CH 11) 021
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Morning Doodle: “The others’ eyes were locked on the statue, but before Nikolai could yank the cuff of his glove back into place, Zoya glimpsed the dark veining at his wrist pulse black“ (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11) 062
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Morning Doodle: “In the valley below, Zoya could just glimpse the sprawl of Kribirsk in the distance and the glimmer of the dead white sands that had once been the Shadow Fold beyond. They were close.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11) 031
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Morning Doodle: “Look,” said Tolya, and she heard new reverence in his voice. Black tears ran from Lizabeta’s eyes. They gleamed hard as obsidian, as if they’d frozen there or been cast in stone themselves. (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11) 051
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Morning Doodle: Yuri’s face was ecstatic. “I wanted to believe. I did believe, but this…” Zoya realized he was weeping. “Be silent,” she bit out. “Or I’ll stuff you back into the coach myself.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11) 020
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Morning Doodle: “A statue of Sankta Lizabeta stood before the entrance. A riot of red roses had burst through the stone, cracking open her veiled skull. The flowers tumbled over the statue in wild profusion, surrounding its marble skirts in a wide circle like a pool of blood.” (KoS CH 11) 071
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Morning Doodle: “They emerged at the top of a high, mounded hill next to a cathedral surrounded by scaffolding, its golden domes gleaming in the late-afternoon sun.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11) 070
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Morning Doodle: “That squash is as wide as I am tall,” Nikolai said beneath his breath as he smiled and waved. “And twice as handsome.” “Half as handsome,” he protested. “Ah,” said Zoya, “but the squash doesn’t talk.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11) 061
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 07/02/2026“The village was like all the others except for the pretty lake it overlooked. This time they’d been greeted by an off-key band and a parade of livestock and giant vegetables.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11) 030
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Morning Doodle: “How can you be so sure?” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11) 042
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Morning 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) 0106
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Morning 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) 072
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Morning 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) 031
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 02/01/2026No 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! 030
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Morning 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) 063
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Late 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) 021
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Morning 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) 020
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Morning 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) 063
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Late 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) 073
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Late 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) 031
Kolarp Em @kolarpem.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Morning Doodle: Baby Nikolai looking down the hall as he feeds the dog his last piece of steak 030