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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 Tuesday 12/09/2025 - Gengar Continuing off the last post, Gengar was a request and I'm doing my best! I'm not gonna check but I think this is the first Ghost-type...
It's not much but it's pretty Growing up in California, (specifically in the bay area and then spending adult years in the Coachella Valley) most of my life has been framed with the old expression "Snow is a place you go, not a thing...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Day 12/06/2025 - Maractus The work continues!! Another random number generator find - I guess I'm not surprised there are cactus pokemon but I've never seen any before...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Previously On As mentioned in the last Daily Dex post, I got VERY VERY sick and lost about a whole week of real life to it - but as I could, I continued the drawings...
Hey two quick things if you're new here! First - hi, I'm MSD: I front a chiptune/orchestral indie music band collective thing called Curious Quail and I'm bad at promoting our music so I'm gonna be doing that right here before the blog...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Quick caveat up front; Saturday night I got incredibly INCREDIBLY sick (don’t wanna go into it but I’ve legitimately never thrown up that much in my life) and by the...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 11/27/2025 - Morpeko It's Thanksgiving day here in the US; a holiday predicated on lies about 'peaceful relations' with the indigenous peoples of North America...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 11/24/25 - Ralts Random number generation led me here - I have no attachment to this thing whatsoever. Lucked out and found both of the acknowledged-in-pokemon...
Putting money where mouth is in an industry that often doesn't KO_OP both announced AND released their new game Young Suns today; this is something I've been looking forward to for a long time for a few reasons: First off, KO_OP has...
Gigabash is actually good without all the DLC but it's nice to see the big three together finally This week, the latest DLC for Gigabash launched which brings characters from the 2023 CG anime version of Gamera to the battle. I've been...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Fri 11/21/25 - Hisuian Voltorb For each of these sometimes I'm directly inspired, sometimes I just roll a random number. Voltorb was the latter; I got '100' on the list...
A silly problem to have, but it's mine I've got this mug that was a present from my family. I love it. It makes me really happy because I drink a lot of coffee and I make a lot of music on gameboys and it was a really thoughtful...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop It's been a busy week so let's jump in! Tues 11/18/25 - Oshawott Man I've got no attachment to this thing but it IS cute and I legitimately hate how it's final...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sat 11/15/25 - Porygon I will always have a soft spot for Porygon. This creature was wronged by history, taking the blame for something that was not its fault. If...
There's 'inspired by'...and then there's whatever this is Over the last month or so on any platform I use where ads exist (Which like let's be clear, is mainly gmail and google news which is on me for using either - I get that) I have...