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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??
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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 01/05/2026 - Mudkip In honor of Awesome Games Done Quick running this week and the finale game on the schedule being Pokemon Emerald, this week I'll be focusing on pokemon from Gen 3; I figured I should start with the starters and go from...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Fri 01/02/2026 - Azelf RNG for Friday's entry and we were greeted by one of the heralds of Arceus themselves. I can't help that from a design standpoint it reeks of "We have Mew at home, let's give it two tails and a shark-fin head to make it look...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weds 12/31/2025 - Blacephalon Happy new year - I looked up "the firework pokemon" and I'm not sure what I was expecting but this wasn't it. Weird clown-like ultrabeast? What the hell even is this thing!! Next new years (if I'm still doing this)...
New Techos, Moons, A sick as hell photo of a cat named Possum, and musings on celebrating your accomplishments at the end of the year Finally, some good fucking snow Leading up to December, I thought a lot about doing a year end round-up of stuff I did this year; favorite photos I took, songs I worked on, progress...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sun 12/28/2025 - Fennekin Inspired by my trip to Lumiose for Z-A, I started a fresh save of Pokemon X to play through casually as time allows and started with a Fennekin. I named them TALLFOX, which is the nickname we gave to the (you'll never...
You know the drill!! One subject, three lenses I think all told I photographed the moon less than 12 times this year; that's bonkers compared to 2024 which was more than double that easily. I know life's been weird but there's something to be said about end of year looking back and realizing how much or little I did...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 12/25/2025 - Delibird I don't know how often I'll try to do 'thematic' pokemon selections (especially since I'm gonna get limited in that regard) but for christmas I left it up to the kids; they picked Staryu (symbolic for a tree topper) or...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 12/23/2025 - Tyrunt This was the first fossil pokemon I got in Z-A; I named him Grumpus and he was part of my team for a pretty long time (and is still my rock type backup when needed for bonus cards in the battle zone). He's a Tyrantrum now...
Jump-scared by an update for a dead game Steam has this 'What's new' section on your library page; it highlights developer posts, patches for things you actively play etc - and this morning I noticed there was one for Hyper Light Breaker that was posted yesterday. This is confusing for a lot of reasons but mostly...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Both pokemon in today's post are tangentially related to sidequests in the Mega Dimension DLC for Z-A; I don't think this is super spoilery but just tossing that out there in case you care and want to avoid (or you can just not read the...
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