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Happy Holidays, I hope you had a great Christmas 🙂

I’m getting a zillion character ideas just thinking about it.

Absolutely! I think one of the interesting things about it is that family dynamics function completely differently from most others and that even in the same circumstances, it could work completely differently. Endless possiblities, basically.

I love that so much.

I know right? It reminds me of that other piece of paper they found with the doodles on it. Lemme see if I can find it.

It’s one of the many doodles made by a seven-year-old boy named Onfim who lived in Novgorod (now Russia) around 700 years ago.

This specific doodle are his parents, and the others are mostly him and his friends, or him battling vague but intimidating scribbly beasts. As you do.

Most of the pieces have some part of writing practice on them, usually a few letters or a short text, so he was probably doodling in school instead of paying attention.

I think my favorite thing about it is how much the scribbly drawings look like the stuff little kids always draw. The too many fingers and wonky eyes and rectangle bodies. It looks like something that could have been drawn yesterday.

I love when I find stuff like that!

(Also interesting about it, Onfim apparently wasn’t of particularly high class, he was probably a peasant, but his notes to his classmates indicate that young children were taught to read and write even when they weren’t noble. Of course, it may be an exception, one instance doesn’t prove the rule, but it’s still interesting.)