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Writer, copy editor, copy editorial director @bonabooks.bsky.social, British Fantasy Award finalist, Jim Henson expert, actual Muppet, theatre gay, former Disney cast member, Oz fan. Lives in London on a narrowboat. He/him. https://linktr.ee/robwillb

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · Feb 23

Name: Rob
Pronouns: he/him
Location: London, England (on a boat!)
Interests: TV, film, theatre (musical and otherwise), books, sci-fi/fantasy, Jim Henson, gay music, queer history/culture, mythology, fairy tales, Doctor Who, Oz
Vocation: Copy editor/proofreader, writer

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 19m

SURPRISE!!

Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 23m

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 1h

Interview with the Vampire (2022)

Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 1h

Also you aren't morally or intellectually superior for happening to prefer your storytelling media to be written out.

Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 1h

In many, many, many, many, many, many, MANY cases, the film/TV show is better.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 3h

Studying for the Life in the UK test and currently amused that the Maggie Thatcher and Roald Dahl mini-bios are back-to-back in the official guidebook. @onceuponavhs.bsky.social @hrfmichael.bsky.social

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Tom🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @norab84.bsky.social · 5h

We need to bring back pie-ing bigots on live TV

Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 7h

On this day in queer history: Oct 14, 1977

During a live TV appearance in Iowa, anti-gay activist Anita Bryant was hit with a pie in protest of her “Save Our Children” campaign. A sweet moment of queer resistance.

#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #AnitaBryant

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 5h

Share a TV show you love from the 1970s

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 9h

WHERE'S DAVID LYNCH? is released in March 2026 in Australia and April 2026 in the UK and USA.

Front Cover of a book. Red curtains frame an illustration of Twin Peaks in a simple comic book style. The black and white chevron floor disappears into a black void at the bottom of the cover. WHERE'S DAVID LYNCH? appears on bold white text. In red text to the right is Written by Keith Gow, Illustrations by Kev Gahan. In smaller white text down the bottom: A search and find adventure through the surreal worlds of David Lynch

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 14h

Forgot to keep updating this the past few days oops!

Unless I forgot something, over the past few days I watched:

Hansel and Gretel (1987)
Sweeney Todd (Angela Lansbury version, ofc)
The Witch
The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr Toad
Sleepy Hollow
Celebrity Traitors (counts because gothic vibes, yea?)

Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 16h

I did indeed spend the evening living deliciously. 🥰

Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda feeling like tonight is a The Witch night.

a goat with horns is standing in a barn with two people standing next to it .

ALT: a goat with horns is standing in a barn with two people standing next to it .

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 16h

Yup!

Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 20h

There's some imported nonsense from the US amongst some crazy right-wing people but it doesn't seem to have a real foothold on the politics here and it isn't a talking point I've heard come up prominently amongst even right wing politicians.

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 21h

If anyone intended to pre-order Wrath Month and hadn't got round to it yet, we're currently £8 away from a cool £40,000 and it...

is...

driving...

us...

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 22h

Not really. It's carp that's been mushed but then reassembled into a thick, solid...yeah, basically turd.

Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 22h

Flu jabbed. Suck it, RFK Jr! 🫡

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 23h

It has been a bit quiet today. I know yesterday was very good, but we are not funded yet so I am going to have to keep pestering you until we are. If you have already backed it, why not share it with your friends? www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)

An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

www.kickstarter.com

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 23h

Boys night out!

Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 1d

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely agreed on mushrooms. Vile things.

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 1d

The taste, the texture, just the mental image of carp and what they consume...everything haha.

Dancer in the Dark is an excellent film but it's brutally depressing in a way that never left me. One viewing was more than enough, though I have rewatched some of Bjork's musical numbers.

Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

Gefilte Fish
Dancer in the Dark
Fields of Gold

Sam Kurd but SPOOPY (he/him) @samkurd.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

Foie gras
Requiem For A Dream
Fast Food Song

Dion Winton-Polak @dionwintonpolak.bsky.social · 1d

Coffee Cremes
Grave of the Fireflies
I Got Bills

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 1d

Aw thank you! I had an absolute blast. And right??

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 4d

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 1d

Me talking on a podcast about witches who shockingly aren't Oz witches! Does this mean I'm vers now? 🤔

Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 3d

Gay gasps abound on our episode about The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social when discussing other actresses potentially considered for the role of the Grand High Witch, so memorably played by Anjelica Huston.

Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 1d

Me to the Dorothy WICKED dolls:

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