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Joi Massat
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Author, editor, doodler, dibbler ⦁ ALF ⦁ crave the ALF
Blog: https://jmassat.com
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Can't believe I forgot about this one.
Cover of the album "Larry Raspberry and the Highsteppers." It is an illustration of seven people's heads protruding from a single highstepping raspberry. Really wacky.
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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There shouldn't even be 10% this many tags on a video that's just one theme song looped thousands of times.

Highlights include "sleep hypnosis healing," "sicko mode," "music from mtv's golden age," "120 minutes," "xbox," "xbox 360," "travi$ scott," "rap/hip-hop" and "hollywood reporter."
List of tags for a YouTube video titled "Quantum Leap Theme 10 Hours Extended." The text block is nearly 600 words long.
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score
"The Stupids," with a 21% score on the Tomatometer and 38% on the Popcornometer.
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Hi! I have thinkpieces on being NB and ace, as well as a LitRPG about a catgirl hanging out in a cabin in the woods and a fantasy adventure about an NB demon shapeshifter.
All here: jmassat.com
A cheerful catgirl doing a fist-pump. A not-so-cheerful demon knight with pizza hanging from their mouth.
September 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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6 hours left? And more gifts and stretch goals left to conquer?! tinyurl.com/winhea
Logo for the game "Winter Heat," showing two women hugging in snowfall at night. Kickstarter screenshot: "$1,687 pledged of $600 goal. 38 backers. 6 hours to go. Back this project"
August 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The people were asking for more Toki Pona lyrics. They were bangin' down the door for more.
www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/c...
Toki Pona translation of lyrics to "Limelight" by Rush (pt. 1) Toki Pona translation of lyrics to "Limelight" by Rush (pt. 2)
August 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I never thought I'd see the day. There really was a magazine with the "Something - Something - Laffs" tagline, Captain Underpants-style.
Cover of Teen World Magazine, August edition (maybe 1966? It's got 60s Batman on it). The headlines include "Beauty - Fashions - Laffs." Close-up: "Beauty - Fashions - Laffs"
May 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I translated a cozy fantasy into Toki Pona! ...well, 2 chapters and I'm really rusty on Toki Pona, but I only had six hours of not-much-else-to-do to work on this, so :) (I will take corrections/suggestions, though)

Read it here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Exuberant catgirl pumping her fist.. Text reads, "Catgirl System. Read it! Crave it!! *in toki pona"
April 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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it's Short! it's Finished! it's Free!

Just posted the last chapter of Bears Eat Clover, a #yuri #wlw bittersweet romance with a bit of bloody magical combat here and there. In this excerpt, Carmina meets a furious bear! But she won't be eaten; she's not clover

www.honeyfeed.fm/novels/20083
Quote from Bears Eat Clover chapter 10: "A bear roared into Carmina’s ears, and the walls of the cave made echoes that nearly ruptured her eardrums. The sound was overtaken by her breath, her heartbeat. Both were faster and more frantic even before she began to panic. She began to hyperventilate and both went off like a jackrabbit’s foot."
April 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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In Chapter 8 of this ALMOST FINISHED STORY (#woah) the lead starts feeling sad (#sad) but don't worry, soon her love interest will be shown feeling sad too (#sadx2)

Read it all for free here! www.honeyfeed.fm/novels/20083
#yuri #wlw #romantasy #girlslove #peoplefeelingsad
An excerpt from Chapter 8 of Bears Eat Clover: "Perhaps she would get better at reading people—by that time perhaps she would think, 'A little cold is just the way Clover is. It’s her normal.' She might not mind. And if she bore her heart to Carmina the way the lovers in books were supposed to, and revealed that so many of her habits indeed were only there to keep everyone else happy, that might not be the end. But maybe it would be."
April 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I'm tabling at the Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase! You should go there also. It's free!!
More details here: brooklynindependentcomicsshowcase.com
Flyer for the Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase: "April 26th & 27th, 2025 * 11am - 7pm. 51 35th Street, Industry City. Free Admission!" Pictured are Dub Rabbit and Taipha, two of my characters. They seem to be having fun!
April 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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In this chapter, Clover and Carmina team up and slaughter slimes, whether they (or the slimes) want to or not! Goop flies everywhere; maybe also organs.
#yuri #wlw #gl #romantasy

Read more here! www.honeyfeed.fm/novels/20083
Quote from Chapter 5 of the story Bears Eat Clover: "Even an amateur mage with just a dash of training could bring their strength back in a matter of weeks—and someone like Carmina, who’d scarcely set foot in a gym but had long known the way to cycle her breath, could do a sight better. Any mage knew their cells could recover. Carved-up faces and shattered limbs never came back; good mages only made calculated risks."
April 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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In this chapter, Clover and her boyfriend aren't working out
#yuri #wlw #romantasy (um, there is another girl in the next chapter, Clover just has to have a breakup first 😥)

Read more here! www.honeyfeed.fm/novels/20083
A quote from Bears Eat Clover chapter 3 on weathered paper: "As the sunset faded into evening, their faces became dark and two roommates came in without a word, opening the fridge, passing into their own rooms. Clover knew it was wrong to feel attacked—he was just saying how he felt—but as he listed off the things about their short time together that annoyed or dissatisfied him, she did. She felt attacked, accused, and far too vulnerable."
April 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I keep having dreams where my subconscious goes "isn't this the spookiest, worst, most embarrassing thing you've ever been forced to endure?" but I say "eh, you could do better"

Nobody WANTS to reexperience puberty as Toad yells at them to stop taking so long in the bathroom, but sure, if I have to
Toad from the Super Mario Bros. series. Image is pixelated for comedic effect.
April 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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My #wlw novella called Bears Eat Clover will be posted thru May. Click the link and follow along for free! www.honeyfeed.fm/novels/20083

Is it #romantasy if it's not that cozy a romance? Not sure, but I'll tag it anyway!!
A green girl in a lab coat stands serenely over a stern reddish-pink girl in a bright red scarf. Stylized red and green circles line the girls and suggest bear ears.
April 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I think I subconsciously named a story I'm working on after a story I will probably never read or see but I passed by on Wikipedia, proving that random browsing CAN have a purpose!!!

(note: this post is tongue-in-cheek. Browsing with zero purpose or tangible results is a great pleasure too)
Cover of the book "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" The cover is a stark oil painting of a man struggling to hold a collapsing woman under a spotlight.
March 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Phew! I've always wanted to wear a super shirt with a one-way street stripe that runs across my chest and leads to the action. ...Wait, they stopped selling these fifty years ago
Image from a 1970s fashion catalogue. The captions read: "SAILAWAY! Drop-front sailors' pants with big, bold, brass buttons that might bring out a brass band when you hit the town in these 100% polyester fine things. A fox'll jump ship on account of these!" "ROADRUNNER: A super shirt, with a one-way street stripe that runs across your chest and leads to the action. And with this one, you better expect action! In 655 acetate, 35% nylon."
March 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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I made a hilarious repurposed-cardboard book stand that constantly overbalances and is way too small and fragile for what I want it to do
Short cardboard book stand holding a magazine, seen from the back. The same stand and magazine seen from the front. The book stand, alone. The main piece is a cardboard square folded in half (unevenly) with its corners cut off like the top of a hexagon. Near the bottom, a cardboard strip is attached to hold books in place.
February 19, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Woah, delaying my early-morning-ritual shower → procrastinating on important but confusing task → taking 5x as long as expected on said task → doing impromptu computer organization for 2 hours REALLY messed up my flow. Guess there'll be no creative writing tonight! 😀 ..... 😟

...Have an ALF
Willie Tanner and ALF, as seen through the front windows of a car. I titled this image file "DateWithALF"
February 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Another month is here, and as such, I am obligated to tell you I've made another free Patreon personal-life-and-creative-stuff update post: www.patreon.com/posts/newsbl...
A banner with the headline "update!". The headline is in a speech bubble next to a stressed-out cat-eared person.
February 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Now was not exactly the time to make a list of my Top However-Many-There-Are Super Sentai Theme Songs, but it's happening anyway, and nobody can stop it. Check out this guy from Flashman
January 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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An irreverent movie review of Logan's Run: jmassat.com/2025/01/06/l...
A frightened man in a cage of glowing red bars. His face is lit bright red. DVD cover for "Star Wars IV: A New Hope" with Obi-Wan Kenobi's head circled and pointed at, clickbait-YouTube-thumbnail style. He is labelled "OLD man"
January 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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One I wrote: Catgirl System
One I didn't wrote: Minute Mage

Minute Mage is off the wall and kind of mindbending. Catgirl System is mostly me messing around and having as much heartwarmin' fun as I can
A smiling yellow-orange tabby cat
January 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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I watched every episode of Gekisou Sentai Carranger recently. Was it worth it? We don't know
Five colorful giant robots, with a cutesy white cat-headed robot in the middle, stand over a forest.
December 31, 2024 at 3:34 AM
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Woah, the end goal of my booklet-printing project is actually within sight! And so are openings for local bookselling events. Hot Dog
A booklet titled "Catgirl System: The Beginning, by Joi Massat" sits next to a smiley face pillow.
December 29, 2024 at 12:14 AM