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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
I've gotten both a baby and now a teen cardinal on my lifer list, I'm so stoked lmao Ok so like, a month ago I photographed a baby cardinal who was learning how to fly and was this awkward little frumpy mess - but today?? TODAY I GOT TO...
In my defense, there's so many of them It's just absolute cardinal hours here I guess. They're everywhere. All the time. I don't mind!! but it means you have to deal with looking at them if you visit my blog and I hope we can all be ok...
This one was slightly less angry at me But I think that comes with the territory of not being near their offspring who is learning how to fly. Anyway, here's some bird. I enjoy bird, thought you might also. .slider-before, .slider-after...
TALKIN SHIT Most of these I do for me 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 Wild few days but I'm nothing if not determined to see this project through till at least Wind and Waves come out. Anyway, in today's post we don't have a lot of icons....
TALKIN SHIT (Fun sidenote, I learned that this little fucker is called the "Gray Catbird" and I love it so much) I-guess-this-is-just-gonna-be-a-format-I-use-from-now-on photography
Limiting myself to 9 because that's what the format was, but I could prolly go WAY harder Last week, the 9 Steam Games I Want to Spread page was going around all over socials and I wanted to do one, but instead of "make an image with it...
The promised continuation As mentioned yesterday, for some reason I can only put one slider per post and maybe that's for the best because I have to stretch these out rather than just dumping them all into a giant mess post. Saturday had...
TALKIN SHIT (Oh no, two blog posts in one day what has happened to me) I-guess-this-is-just-gonna-be-a-format-I-use-from-now-on photography
These are so fun to do If you've been here a while, you might remember how in March I caught covid and it absolutely fucked my life for about 2+ months. I went from "going on walks regularly and photographing stuff outside as much as...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 06/16/2026 - Torkoal Generally I like turtle and tortoise style pokemon but something about this just rubs me the wrong way. Maybe the whole coal thing? A symbol...
Seventeen Days In, Here are some Blog Posts I liked Recently! Photo unrelated, I just like having photos on my blog posts. Took this back in March while the winter was still wintering and never got around to posting it I think the...
AI "assisted" Code is still generative AI and it's weird how people try to justify that it's not Last week I wrote at length about how much I was enjoying the Spirit Crossing playtest, a life sim MMO being built by the team that made...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop The weekend was not nearly as long as I wanted it to be - ever notice how 48 hours as a system of measurement is like, highly unreliable? Anyway, here's the pokemon...
Cooperative play in the Crosslands is so goddamn satisfying I've spent the last few days playing the Spirit Crossing playtest and man, I gotta put these thoughts down somewhere because it's a TREAT. First, some background When Spry Fox's...