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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
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop The work continues! Let's take a look at a few pokemon: Tues 06/02/2026 - Yveltal When I started this project I knew it wasn't gonna be all dittos and simple line art...
Comitting to sharing other's blog posts on my blog to further encourage the blogging ourorborus Photo unrelated, I just like having photos on my blog posts. His name is Mastodon, by the way I've been using Bubbles a lot lately in lieu of...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Hey we're back! My favorite pen that I use for line art finally died during last Thursday's drawing o7 o7 o7 - so starting with Friday's we're moving from the .005mm to...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Christ, a few Daily Dex posts ago I was like "I wanna do these a bit more on a schedule" and then got distracted by time off work, going to a few movies, cleaning my...
The bar for not engaging with media that directly supports genocide is in hell, apparently Photos unrelated, thought we could use some pretty. Here's Monday's sunset. I don't have a greater throughline here or moral but I kinda needed to...
Finally had a Gundam film showing at a theater close to where I live after like 30 years of watching this franchise Thursday night I saw Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nypmh Circe in theaters. It's a weird experience seeing...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop This week has marked some of the first times I've not had the post-5pm "long covid crash" since I got sick back in March. I'm trying not to push myself but I've...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop A slightly more managable haul for one blogpost - gonna try to get to a rhythm where I do these about 4 at a time but not more. That way the blog isn't all pokemon all...
It's been a while Keeping a fair amount of my blogging bandwidth (a personal metric, not a data one) taken up by drawing pokemon every day and then getting incredibly sick, I've noticed that some of my more prominent "post archetypes" if...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop We got a doozy today. I'm still recovering from long covid and I've also been dealing with a huge work project that involved some weekend work and long nights and I'm...
Dude, so I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about giant monsters. I was introduced to the Showa-era dubbed Godzilla films ("GODZILLER!") very young by my older brother and my cousin and that canon event permanently adjusted my...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop I get that I'm still sick and very busy with work but some days go by where I'm like "shit I have 4 pokemon on my camera's card and I need to get them out of...
Small thoughts about a small holiday turned large The fact that it started as "an important historical military victory in another country" and has become effectively the most prominent celebration of Mexican culture in the United States...
Birdchosting to the max, my friends This morning while I was taking out my AM litter haul (living with this many cats you do multiple empties per day) I heard more birdsong than usual, and it sounded a little distressed. Upon closer...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 04/28/2026 - Ninjask Man, I love a bug in a sentai mask. I get that a lot of sentai masks are like, bug adjacent anyway but it's just cool. Never had one of these...