quailblog
quailblog
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 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
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...