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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 Weds 02/04/2026 - Horsea Ok that's enough ice types for now; I didn't intentionally mean to follow the ice types with a water type like some sort of metaphorical thaw...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 02/03/2026 - Glalie It's still ice types which means there's still more than 2 feet of snow outside here. Scientific weather measuring going on. Sorry to the...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sun 02/01/2026 - Eiscue I know that I rag on pokemon designs fairly regularly but like this one...this fucking guy is a pure 10/10 shitpost. Penguin with an ice cube...
Three days worth of moon photos including Jupiter, camera focus AND lens adventures Finally was able to catch up with some moon photo editing; the last few days have been great for that and like, to be a downer, not a lot else!! It's v...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop I guess the ice type pokemon will continue until the snow melts or I run out of ice types. Not that I want the snow to melt, it's pretty as hell. Also we got out first...
That time a random song about giving up on New Year's Resolutions lead to committing to a year-long project The song in question - give it a watch and turn on closed captions for lyrics, etc Every year around the end of January I think...
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...