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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??
Latest Posts
TALKIN SHIT (Fun sidenote, I learned that this little fucker is called the "Gray Catbird" and I love it so much) I-guess-this-is-just-gonna-be-a-format-I-use-from-now-on photography
Limiting myself to 9 because that's what the format was, but I could prolly go WAY harder Last week, the 9 Steam Games I Want to Spread page was going around all over socials and I wanted to do one, but instead of "make an image with it...
The promised continuation As mentioned yesterday, for some reason I can only put one slider per post and maybe that's for the best because I have to stretch these out rather than just dumping them all into a giant mess post. Saturday had...
TALKIN SHIT (Oh no, two blog posts in one day what has happened to me) I-guess-this-is-just-gonna-be-a-format-I-use-from-now-on photography
These are so fun to do If you've been here a while, you might remember how in March I caught covid and it absolutely fucked my life for about 2+ months. I went from "going on walks regularly and photographing stuff outside as much as...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 06/16/2026 - Torkoal Generally I like turtle and tortoise style pokemon but something about this just rubs me the wrong way. Maybe the whole coal thing? A symbol...
Seventeen Days In, Here are some Blog Posts I liked Recently! Photo unrelated, I just like having photos on my blog posts. Took this back in March while the winter was still wintering and never got around to posting it I think the...
AI "assisted" Code is still generative AI and it's weird how people try to justify that it's not Last week I wrote at length about how much I was enjoying the Spirit Crossing playtest, a life sim MMO being built by the team that made...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop The weekend was not nearly as long as I wanted it to be - ever notice how 48 hours as a system of measurement is like, highly unreliable? Anyway, here's the pokemon...
Cooperative play in the Crosslands is so goddamn satisfying I've spent the last few days playing the Spirit Crossing playtest and man, I gotta put these thoughts down somewhere because it's a TREAT. First, some background When Spry Fox's...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Apparently this is day 211 of the project, meaning I'm about 20% of the way through the currently released pokemon. That's pretty daunting considering Wind and Waves...
A celebration of gender rebels throughout history In a weird twist of things I'm never quite sure how to explain, a while back my brother became the executive director of the Vallejo Naval Museum; now from its name alone you'd think that...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Fri 06/05/2026 - Natu I don't know how else to describe this than "it looks like it'd be wall art in Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared. On the "is it just a bird" spectrum I'd...
It pays to check notifications on your discarded social media every once in a while I guess lmao Because “curious quail” is our band name but also has been my primary online identity since like 2008, if I have an account somewhere and I...
TALKIN SHIT I-guess-this-is-just-gonna-be-a-format-I-use-from-now-on photography