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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
To the holiday decorations At the end of today I'm off for two weeks (barring any emergencies) and I'm happy to, despite not being any form of religious whatsoever, enjoy some winter holiday. We finally busted out our stuff and Snoops is...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Here's the most recent batch - Monday through today. Mon 12/15/2025 - Diglett 50 came up in random number generation. I thought about doing the Alolan variant but I'd...
MSD's GOTY Indecision Blowout I don't think I can truly commit to a 'Game of the Year' so instead I'm just highlighting stuff I really enjoyed. 馃幃 check out the whole series here 馃幃 The Honorable Mentions These are the games that I either...
MSD's GOTY Indecision Blowout I don't think I can truly commit to a 'Game of the Year' so instead I'm just highlighting stuff I really enjoyed. 馃幃 check out the whole series here 馃幃 Hollow Knight: Silksong Developer: Team Cherry Released:...
MSD's GOTY Indecision Blowout I don't think I can truly commit to a 'Game of the Year' so instead I'm just highlighting stuff I really enjoyed. 馃幃 check out the whole series here 馃幃 Beastieball Note: I'm counting November / December 2024...
MSD's GOTY Indecision Blowout I don't think I can truly commit to a 'Game of the Year' so instead I'm just highlighting stuff I really enjoyed. 馃幃 check out the whole series here 馃幃 Pokemon Legends: Z-A Developer: Game Freak Released:...
MSD's GOTY Indecision Blowout I don't think I can truly commit to a 'Game of the Year' so instead I'm just highlighting stuff I really enjoyed. 馃幃 check out the whole series here 馃幃 Nitro Gen Omega Developer: DESTINYbit Released: Early...
FINALLY Man I've been waiting for snow, like snow-ass SNOW for a loooong time; the forecast didn't have any on it (unlike last week when it said 2-3" and we got sleet) so I was pretty surprised to find a goddamn winter wonderland this...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop It's been a few days since I got these posted and the thing that motivated me to get the photos edited and online is that it's FINALLY FUCKING SNOWING like REAL SNOW...
I realized it's been a while since I posted snoops so please, enjoy. snowapple-says-good-morning
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tuesday 12/09/2025 - Gengar Continuing off the last post, Gengar was a request and I'm doing my best! I'm not gonna check but I think this is the first Ghost-type...
It's not much but it's pretty Growing up in California, (specifically in the bay area and then spending adult years in the Coachella Valley) most of my life has been framed with the old expression "Snow is a place you go, not a thing...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Day 12/06/2025 - Maractus The work continues!! Another random number generator find - I guess I'm not surprised there are cactus pokemon but I've never seen any before...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Previously On As mentioned in the last Daily Dex post, I got VERY VERY sick and lost about a whole week of real life to it - but as I could, I continued the drawings...
Hey two quick things if you're new here! First - hi, I'm MSD: I front a chiptune/orchestral indie music band collective thing called Curious Quail and I'm bad at promoting our music so I'm gonna be doing that right here before the blog...