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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 Tues 01/27/2026 - Galarian Darumaka Tuesday's entry was brought to you by: Sticking with the ice types theme Finding yet another ice type that only exists in a regional...
Cannot express how happy I am About a week and a half ago I noticed a snowflake at the end of the 10-day forecast. It started as a whopping 6-8 inches predicted for that upcoming Sunday which was pretty fucking great for actual snow...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 01/26/2026 - Alolan Sandshrew I was thinking more about ice / snow themed pokemon (since our official tally as of this writing is that we got THREE FEET of snow)...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop But first, a word from our sponsors: the horrors I'd started working on this post shortly after finishing yesterday's (1/24)'s drawing - right before I saw the news...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weds 01/21/2026 - Meowstic Meowtic was specifically requested yesterday but the gender was left up to me so I decided with a coin toss. Thurs 01/22/2026 - Hisuian...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...