Peter Fox
@fragileoutlier.bsky.social
He/Him; cis-gender gay man.
Novelist, artist, idiot. Not necessarily in that order.
Put me in the corner cos I’m into ideas.
www.instagram.com/fragileoutlier
Novelist, artist, idiot. Not necessarily in that order.
Put me in the corner cos I’m into ideas.
www.instagram.com/fragileoutlier
It’s almost Christmas darlings so I’m watching my fave gateway movie: Frozen. I forgot what a note-perfect romantic comedy it was. And, like all good gays, I’m still obsessed with Let it Go 🥰
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It’s almost Christmas darlings so I’m watching my fave gateway movie: Frozen. I forgot what a note-perfect romantic comedy it was. And, like all good gays, I’m still obsessed with Let it Go 🥰
Given that I’m trying to promote my budding career as a novelist, it seems inadvisable to get political. But I feel very strongly and generally being unapologetically myself feels right. I’ve voted Labour all my life. Feeling utterly betrayed, can confirm: I now vote Green.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Given that I’m trying to promote my budding career as a novelist, it seems inadvisable to get political. But I feel very strongly and generally being unapologetically myself feels right. I’ve voted Labour all my life. Feeling utterly betrayed, can confirm: I now vote Green.
We’re watching Nobody Wants This and I’m still struggling with anyone thinking Kristen Bell is ‘too brash’ for literal anything. Is it just me and my boyfriend not understanding the cultural difference? We wondered if it’s the same as a Muslim dating Nigel Farage…
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We’re watching Nobody Wants This and I’m still struggling with anyone thinking Kristen Bell is ‘too brash’ for literal anything. Is it just me and my boyfriend not understanding the cultural difference? We wondered if it’s the same as a Muslim dating Nigel Farage…
@garbage.com I still have t received a presale link for the Scarborough gig; is it being sent out soon?
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
@garbage.com I still have t received a presale link for the Scarborough gig; is it being sent out soon?
We’re at the freshly re-opened Bradford Science and Media Museum - and there’s an exhibition ALL ABOUT ME!! Lol
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
We’re at the freshly re-opened Bradford Science and Media Museum - and there’s an exhibition ALL ABOUT ME!! Lol
Really not sure about this mash-up
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Really not sure about this mash-up
Patricia Routledge and now Prunella Scales 😔 We lost a couple of true queens recently. Kitty and Sybil, you’ll always be iconic 🤍🤍🤍
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Patricia Routledge and now Prunella Scales 😔 We lost a couple of true queens recently. Kitty and Sybil, you’ll always be iconic 🤍🤍🤍
I’m 53,000 words into my new novel. I’ve had a wobble with it, but then waded in and fixed some characterisations (with a horribly dark scene I’m somehow in love with). I have one more story strand to kick off and then we’ll have a book shaping up 😃
October 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I’m 53,000 words into my new novel. I’ve had a wobble with it, but then waded in and fixed some characterisations (with a horribly dark scene I’m somehow in love with). I have one more story strand to kick off and then we’ll have a book shaping up 😃
@theguyliner.bsky.social I finished TGD yesterday (I would have been quicker but I tret mesen to a week of covid lol). It’s… BRUTAL. Absolutely excellent and I couldn’t put it down. But fucking hell, I think I’m scarred for life 😳
October 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
@theguyliner.bsky.social I finished TGD yesterday (I would have been quicker but I tret mesen to a week of covid lol). It’s… BRUTAL. Absolutely excellent and I couldn’t put it down. But fucking hell, I think I’m scarred for life 😳
Went to a Sleeper gig on Saturday and bumped into two sets of beloved friends from 30 years ago who (WTAF) not just remembered me but still adored me three decades on. In a life that’s all too eager to show you how inconsequential you are, I was not prepared for it in the slightest *beachballs*
September 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Went to a Sleeper gig on Saturday and bumped into two sets of beloved friends from 30 years ago who (WTAF) not just remembered me but still adored me three decades on. In a life that’s all too eager to show you how inconsequential you are, I was not prepared for it in the slightest *beachballs*
@theguyliner.bsky.social “The more I learned, the more truth opened itself to me like a filthy, sordid lotus.” I love it already 😃
September 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
@theguyliner.bsky.social “The more I learned, the more truth opened itself to me like a filthy, sordid lotus.” I love it already 😃
@theguyliner.bsky.social I finished Leading Man this morning; I loved it, I think it’s your finest novel yet. Quite a painful read for me in places; I recognised a bit too much of what Leo’s gone through in my own past. Really beautifully explored though and I doubt that’s an easy thing to do 😊
July 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
@theguyliner.bsky.social I finished Leading Man this morning; I loved it, I think it’s your finest novel yet. Quite a painful read for me in places; I recognised a bit too much of what Leo’s gone through in my own past. Really beautifully explored though and I doubt that’s an easy thing to do 😊
I just asked my partner if he’d ever want to go to space. He answered, “I have no reason to go.” As if I’d asked him if he fancied a trip to Aldi LMAO
June 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I just asked my partner if he’d ever want to go to space. He answered, “I have no reason to go.” As if I’d asked him if he fancied a trip to Aldi LMAO
What it feels like for a girl on BBC. One episode in and I’m fuming. ‘Based on a true story’ is the new careless justification - just like with Baby Reindeer - to put one person’s experience onscreen and claim it’s some kind of queer norm. Fuck off. This is a queer show made by straight people.
June 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
What it feels like for a girl on BBC. One episode in and I’m fuming. ‘Based on a true story’ is the new careless justification - just like with Baby Reindeer - to put one person’s experience onscreen and claim it’s some kind of queer norm. Fuck off. This is a queer show made by straight people.
Us writers, we work in the field of dreams, tiling the soil and planting ideas. And that shit is real work; trying to grow the seeds sown by creatives who went before, nurture and tend those growing forms and shape them with our ideals.
So why I gotta do an actual job that’s toxic AF? Why, though?
So why I gotta do an actual job that’s toxic AF? Why, though?
June 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Us writers, we work in the field of dreams, tiling the soil and planting ideas. And that shit is real work; trying to grow the seeds sown by creatives who went before, nurture and tend those growing forms and shape them with our ideals.
So why I gotta do an actual job that’s toxic AF? Why, though?
So why I gotta do an actual job that’s toxic AF? Why, though?
I just watched the Ting Tings play a Fleetwood Mac show and by some extraordinary alchemy it was fucking incredible. WE WALK.
June 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I just watched the Ting Tings play a Fleetwood Mac show and by some extraordinary alchemy it was fucking incredible. WE WALK.
Meanwhile, I’ve posted before about planning vs pantsing in #writing. I wrote something that seemed weak and wasn’t what I intended… until I realised the mutated plot was better. Lesson? Trust your instincts, even when they seem misplaced. Your characters will tell the story if you let them
June 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Meanwhile, I’ve posted before about planning vs pantsing in #writing. I wrote something that seemed weak and wasn’t what I intended… until I realised the mutated plot was better. Lesson? Trust your instincts, even when they seem misplaced. Your characters will tell the story if you let them
A colleague tried to guess what gig I’m going to tomorrow.
“90s?”
“No, noughties.”
“How many band members?”
“Two. They were a bit of a novelty act at the time.”
“Is it Jedward?”
No, Lyndsey. It’s not. I’m going to to see the Ting Tings tomorrow lol
“90s?”
“No, noughties.”
“How many band members?”
“Two. They were a bit of a novelty act at the time.”
“Is it Jedward?”
No, Lyndsey. It’s not. I’m going to to see the Ting Tings tomorrow lol
June 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A colleague tried to guess what gig I’m going to tomorrow.
“90s?”
“No, noughties.”
“How many band members?”
“Two. They were a bit of a novelty act at the time.”
“Is it Jedward?”
No, Lyndsey. It’s not. I’m going to to see the Ting Tings tomorrow lol
“90s?”
“No, noughties.”
“How many band members?”
“Two. They were a bit of a novelty act at the time.”
“Is it Jedward?”
No, Lyndsey. It’s not. I’m going to to see the Ting Tings tomorrow lol
THIS
June 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
THIS
For the first time in an eon I’m listening to Madonna’s American Life. And suddenly - in a world of homogenised 2min pop songs - I miss the pre-streaming era when a song this fucking weird could still get to number 1 ❤️
June 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
For the first time in an eon I’m listening to Madonna’s American Life. And suddenly - in a world of homogenised 2min pop songs - I miss the pre-streaming era when a song this fucking weird could still get to number 1 ❤️
Last day in Croatia; from a pair of American women nearby: “Elon Musk sorted it out. He realised our money was going to European countries, to pay for transvestites to go into primary schools to teach kids about men having sex with men.”
Um… WHAT? Tough to keep my mouth shut. Silently fuming.
Um… WHAT? Tough to keep my mouth shut. Silently fuming.
May 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Last day in Croatia; from a pair of American women nearby: “Elon Musk sorted it out. He realised our money was going to European countries, to pay for transvestites to go into primary schools to teach kids about men having sex with men.”
Um… WHAT? Tough to keep my mouth shut. Silently fuming.
Um… WHAT? Tough to keep my mouth shut. Silently fuming.
I haven’t updated but I’ve done #writing. The premise of my series is that mythical creatures keep inexplicably showing up; so I’ve written about a small boy whose bullies are ripped apart by a swamp demon; an aristocrat who takes a Minotaur as a concubine; and an army of fix-it sprites who sing.” 😃
May 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I haven’t updated but I’ve done #writing. The premise of my series is that mythical creatures keep inexplicably showing up; so I’ve written about a small boy whose bullies are ripped apart by a swamp demon; an aristocrat who takes a Minotaur as a concubine; and an army of fix-it sprites who sing.” 😃
I did my fave 20 books that have influenced me. And it never occurred to me to look at who wrote them. Only six of 20 were written by women (and one of them was co-written by a man). Only two were by queer authors (that I know of) and both were men. Not sure how I feel about that ratio 🤔
April 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I did my fave 20 books that have influenced me. And it never occurred to me to look at who wrote them. Only six of 20 were written by women (and one of them was co-written by a man). Only two were by queer authors (that I know of) and both were men. Not sure how I feel about that ratio 🤔
Think I might have to self-publish my first novel so I figured I’d need a cover. This has taken me months and while she isn’t perfect I think I’m ready to sign her. The dragon who shouldn’t exist, deep in the forests of the Great North Ward #dragon #FantasyArt #acrylics #BookCover
April 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Think I might have to self-publish my first novel so I figured I’d need a cover. This has taken me months and while she isn’t perfect I think I’m ready to sign her. The dragon who shouldn’t exist, deep in the forests of the Great North Ward #dragon #FantasyArt #acrylics #BookCover