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Writer, copy editor, copy editorial director @bonabooks.bsky.social, Jim Henson expert, actual Muppet, theatre gay, former Disney cast member, Oz fan. Lives in London on a narrowboat. He/him. linktr.ee/robwillb gofund.me/ffde0bbea

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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 9h
Watching RETURN TO OZ for the 10,000th time and I think I just noticed something for the first time...
Nighttime shot outside of Dorothy's bedroom window. The top of the windmill is in the form of an O.Shot inside the room. Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) is sitting up in bed and the slats of wood on the wall behind her look like a Z.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 17h
Gay powers restored! 💫💫💫
Me smiling on the back of my boat with a new haircutMe smiling on the back of my boat with a new haircut
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Blep!
The kitty licking his nose whilst Trip holds him up.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love her.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The way I need Trip to smuggle him home in his luggage.
A precious angel tuxedo kitty with a white stripe down his noseThe kitty curled up in a ball with his pink little toe beans on display, sleeping by Trip.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fact that Elphaba and Fiyero both played Dracula in the same calendar year? That's queer excellence, honey.
Cynthia Erivo as Dracula in the West EndJonathan Bailey caressing his bare chest as Dracula for Audible
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trip's visiting his parents and I was just FaceTiming with their new kitty.
Me making a stupid face at an adorable tiny Tuxedo kitty with a white line down his face.Same but this time the kitty is chewing on Trip's hand.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
9 top albums that shaped who I am
Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
The Decemberists - Picaresque
MIKA - Life in Cartoon Motion
Garbage - Version 2.0
Kylie Minogue - X
Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
Rent - OBC
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kimberly Akimboing
Me in front of the Kimberly Akimbo posterThe stage. A hexagonal clock over a row of high school lockers
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My Top 10 for the 2020s (so far)*: *assuming I'm not forgetting anything which I most certainly am
Wicked (both parts)
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Sinners
tick, tick...BOOM!
Nosferatu
Barbie
Dune (both parts)
The Holdovers
Superman
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cartoon goose chasing man: "and how is the fantasy coffee being distributed? HOW IS IT BEING DISTRIBUTED?"
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And it transitions into Oz nicely!
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The witch shelf is going strong.
Juno Dawson's complete Her Majesty's Royal Coven series in hardback next to Shannon Carlin's Witches Run Amok: The Oral History of Hocus Pocus next to Gregory Maguire's Elphie and Galinda.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's good to see me, isn't it?
Me holding GALINDA: A CHARMED CHILDHOOD by Gregory Maguire with the caption "It's gonna be a good day."
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just re-found whilst cleaning!
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library tote bag
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's going to be a high of 25 and low of 19 in London tomorrow? On 28 September?!
Celine Dion on the phone with the caption "je telephone a la police".
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19
The Unauthorised Biography of Reinhold Messner by Ben Folds Five
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Doing some research for REASONS, came across this sentence, and couldn't help myself.
A wiki entry: 'WEREWOLF OF LONDON is a 1935 horror film directed by Stuart Walker and starring Henry Hull as the titular werewolf.'

over a photo of...

Beanie Feldstein in LADYBIRD saying, 'It is the titular role.'
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hi new friend!
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For real!
Cover of SLASHER IN DER HIGH SCHOOL
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reading GHOSTS' making-of book and got to this bit by Tom Kingsley, who directed the first two series, and gasped. It me! I was in that BFI audience!
"After watching the show hundreds of times in post-production it stops being funny, so when we had a premiere at the BFI, and the whole crowd was laughing non-stop, I felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders."
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The last line in particular is 🔥🔥🔥
The judgment of ordinary people is far from infallible. The popularity of Ed Sheeran’s truly awful music is testament to that (there is such a thing as good bad pop: this is not it). But on the ‘difficult, complicated’ issue of what Israel is doing in Palestine, the judgment of the general populations of many countries has been far sounder than their leaders’. Those in positions of power have gone to great lengths – from smearing dissent to criminalising it – to change this state of affairs, but to no avail. For defenders of Israel, the fact that even Ed Sheeran fans can see the situation for what it is can only be bad news.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I got mine yesterday! 😁
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I always loved how she's literally Rachel from Orphan Black.
Literally Rachel from Orphan Black.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My kink is importing German Blu-rays of American films that didn't get a physical media release anywhere else.
DICKS: DAS MUSICAL
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Found myself by a Forbidden Planet today unexpectedly so I cancelled my Forbidden Planet order and just bought in person. Isn't she beautiful?? 😍
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I've also watched 4 Christmas specials this week alone due to my complete GHOSTS rewatch so it's on the brain.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
About to have my life changed for good.
Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee and Victoria Sponge brews
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think they should keep crying about it.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well, look what showed up on my Kobo! @joshwinning.bsky.social's latest, BE STILL MY UNBEATING HEART, a gay vampire murder mystery romance that I was so honoured to beta read for Josh waaaay back when it was still a first draft. I loved it then and I'm so excited to see how it's grown and changed!
Be Still My Unbeating Heart by Josh Winning
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Watched BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE (1958) for the first time last night, and while a lot of it hasn't aged well, if this moment wasn't one of the absolute cuntiest things I've ever seen... Serving on levels that have rarely been achieved before or since.
Kim Novak staring directly into the camera with wide eyes and the most dramatic eyebrows you've ever seen, with a Siamese cat immediately in front of her, blocking her mouth, giving a similarly cunty expression. There's a bluish tint to the photo.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest ebay acquistion for my continuing Judy hyperfixation. 🥰
Rainbow's End: The Judy Garland Show by Coyne Steven Sanders
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every gay is born with a diva. Who's your diva? I had two main ones assigned to me at birth, and I picked up others as I went along.
Miss Piggy and Bette MidlerPiggy and Bette kissing on the mouth/snout.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Drop two Queer movie suggestions you think your oomfs should see.
Zero.Patience (1993)Dicks: The Musical (2023)
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In my thousands of times watching The Wizard of Oz, this is the first I ever noticed Toto chewing on the Scarecrow's Winkie guard uniform!
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Share one of the most obscure TV shows you can think of! 🖤
Wes Craven's Nightmare Cafe (1992)
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You know how when you look out your window and there's A HUGE FUCKING SWAN peering in at you?
One swan staring right at me through my glass-free window as another glides by.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh, I forgot Bat Pillow!
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wicked displayA sign that reads "Happy Halloween - please stop in for a spell".
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Spooky Season Boat 2026 has begun! 🎃 👻 🧙‍♀️
Halloween DecorationsHalloween DecorationsHalloween DecorationsHalloween Decorations
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Martian Muppets from Sesame Street (known for going "yip yip yip")
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What’s your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.
Dolly Parton in STRAIGHT TALK: "Get down off the cross, honey, somebody needs the wood."
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We absolutely adored BEETLEJUICE The Musical.
Us in front of a poster of Beetlejuice with the pull quote, "ABSOLUTE SCREAM!"
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My Spooky Season officially starts now.
Beetlejuice the Musical at the Prince Edward Theatre in London exteriorBeetlejuice stage
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Always lovely spending time with @thelabandfield.bsky.social 🥰
Alex, me, and Trip
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Spooky Seasonification complete. 😎
New screenname: Rob for Apples

New image: Dorothy from Return to Oz (Fairuza Balk) screaming holding Jack Pumpkinhead's head.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.
Pigs in Space
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