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Mike Shirley-Donnelly (MSD)
Hi hello I am msd I make music and take photos and make art but also run a joint cat rescue / recording studio in southern new england with my partner Della. I'm still mourning Cohost closing, but at least I started blogging as a result??
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All posts (220)
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 01/19/2026 - Mareanie Monday's entry was suggest by one of my kids purely based on the ridiculousness of this thing in the Sun and Moon anime show. Bulbapedia helpfully tells us that this creature's name may originate from the word 'Meanie' and...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sat 01/17/2026 - Phanpy In the past I've criticized the pokemon company for some of their seemingly odd choices for pokemon typing but you know what? I think it's brave to have a blue-ish elephant and NOT make it a water type. I'm proud of them....
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Fri 01/16/2026 - Shuppet I think I've found the one ghost type pokemon that isn't abjectly horrifying. I don't mean in like a visual appearance way, I mean in lore terms where most of them are like the lost souls of dead children, survive by...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 01/15/0226 - Slakoth One of our cats' names is Sloth; he's a good cat. While petting him, had the thought "I wonder if there is a Sloth pokemon" - Slakoth is what first came up which like tracks in terms of both name and design...but it's...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weds 01/14/2026 - Dwebble I gotta admit, it feels pretty fucking wild to be posting about video game monsters when like, real world monsters1 are out there kidnapping people off the streets. BUT! There are things I can do and control and I'm very...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 01/13/2026 - Joltik One of the first things I saw today online was this post from Sol that made me openly guffaw so I let him pick today's pokemon - and I got to learn something! I'd never seen this guy before, it's super cute. Plus I don't...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 01/12/2026 - Mega Abomasnow I know, I know I said I was gonna focus on primary evolutions and not mega or gigantimax etc, but I got a request for Abomasnow from Megan (hire them for your composing needs if you're not hiring me) who specifically...
Catching up on editing; here is the Wolf Moon from last week I didn't think I'd get any actual shots because it was partially cloudy but also the point of highest visibility it was obscured by trees; less than ten minutes later though: Sometimes it works out like that, y'know? moon photography
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sun 01/11/2026 - Deoxys I know I said we'd be back to RNG for today but I got a special request for Deoxys from Noé and given the "just kiss already" ongoing fights between Deoxys and Rayquaza (yesterday's entry) it felt fitting. One more locked in...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop GDQ Week is coming to a close! Make sure to watch tonight at roughly 9:20pm Eastern for adef's run of Pokemon Emerald for the Gameboy Advance; he's going to beat the game in 2 and a half hours with the event dictating which pokemon will be his...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 01/08/2026 - Gardevoir I put out calls yesterday for our remaining two gen 3 icons for this week's AGDQ coverage (the event's finale game Saturday night will be Pokemon Emerald) and Gardevoir was first! Tomorrow's (a secret) is alreayd locked...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weds 01/07/2026 - Treecko AGDQ week continues! Here's our final starter from Gen 3, and what a little guy it is! Starting as an unassuming gecko, evolving into a 'feathered raptor but the feathers are leaves' and then finally into a stoned-looking...
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