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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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All posts (213)
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 stop using it for any reason, I usually don’t delete the account because I don’t...
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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 creatures, I knew the legendaries and ultra beasts and more complex designs would...
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 garden-variety doomscrolling and it has been such a fucking boon; it's a sort...
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 a .03mm - it's noticeably thicker but I think works for the pokemon art style....
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 house etc so - here's fucking eight pokemon I drew over the last week+, finally...
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 just put some thoughts down. This week, worker-owned gaming news site Aftermath...
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 a new release from a franchise that's meant a lot to you throughout your life in...
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 actually had energy?? and it's been WILD to think about how much of the last almost...
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 the time [thom yorke starts menacingly singing YOU DO IT TO YOURSELFFFF in the...
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