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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"More terror arrests in 2025 than during the entire war on terror" suggests Labour have fucked this up. You can't hand them a lever marked 'authoritarianism' without them pulling it!

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This pegasus riding lady witchhunter has been absolutely kicking ass with her “sword of sorrow” (big honking crossbow)

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Although that year (1984) my sister, nine years older than me, showed JAWS on Betamax and took me to the cinema to see TEMPLE OF DOOM. The 80s, man. Traumatic but lifelong love of movies though.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The lethargians in Phantom Tollboth. Slime monsters eating you and your car! bsky.app/profile/slee...

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Catching up with #traitors. Bella should be Doctor Who, Acaster should be the companion. BBC cheque to the usual address etc etc

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once again, my man Tolkein and I are as one* *= I do read contemporary fiction tbf

A snip from a newspaper that says "Tolkien had no agent, read no contemporary fiction and was a great procastinator"

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Omlegg??? I find it funny they’ve spent billions and it’s become the aesthetic of utter low-rent crapness

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He also looked like a boy cursed by a witch into an old man for stealing a cooling cherry pie off her window ledge, and talked like Yosemite Sam.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Enjoying mucking about with the @handiworkgames.bsky.social photo background books. They’re great!

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sounds like the perfect show for Amol Rajan, great British menu of DRUGS

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hooray this just arrived in the post, can’t wait to read it @rachelharrison.bsky.social incredible *looking* book with the red edges and the kirkus review that says ‘as good as armfield and Awad’…

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Coming to the conclusion of a 2-year long warhammer narrative campaign. Penultimate big battle (18ft table! 5 players each side!) was this Sunday.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you aren’t sending a landship over a bridge while the empress of Marienburg watches from her manticore, are you even playing warhammer?:)

A landship crosses over a bridge while the empress of Marienburg watches from her manticore

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I saw Ayo Edibiri in this shirt and was like “I need one”

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This accurately represents what it’s like to be a successful narrative podcaster

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

For such a big budget film, I'm surprised how shit the beards look. Proper amdram stuff.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I mean, I think this could go down in history as the worst film business decision of all time. Do they really think people are going to watch BARRY KEOGHAN IS RINGO and then come straight out and see HARRIS DICKINSON IS LENNON?

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Great example; also if Gustave Dore was alive he’d be doing box art for something called a Bloodslaked Bloodbound Bloodsecrator bsky.app/profile/odin...

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It’s deeper than you think too. Warhammer sex demons have a crab/lobster theme because of Dali, for example.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Remember the silly fun list I was taking to the tournament? I only came SECOND because nobody was ready for that many landships:) It was great fun, three great games bsky.app/profile/will...

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You’re telling me you go to a black journalist at a major newspaper and say “heres access to my whole life, debunk this racist campaign against me”, he finds all the racist claims of fraud etc are actually true, Arday has been lying to him the whole time & he should have said “no I’ll protect him?”

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yeah polymarket is great, no problems at all

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Just an interesting view into how shitty engagement is on Twitter. Same post for #Questpit, 285 likes on Bluesky, 7 likes on Twitter. Strong sense though the agents are on twitter/insta though:(

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I saw a very big butterfly in a sunny day and that always lifts my spirits. The little things, you know?

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I wouldn't say centring, no. In my current WIP there's a lot of weird plant growth to show the world is WRONG, but it's all draw from real horrible plants and look at these suckers! All real totally horrific plants. #horrorwriterschat bsky.app/profile/vamp...

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

WAR PLAGUE HELLFIRE: THE LAST OF US happening just off-stage in HAMILTON A gravedigger 🪏 takes a besotted young lord's❤️ money to find her brother, in a new republic overrun with monsters, having just decapitated its witch-queen. 115k Flintlock fantasy horrormance WIP #Questpit #W #A #DF #RF #H

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

2nd #Questpit skeet for GILT. So - it's NEEDFUL THINGS👹 x GOOP🧘‍♀️, a journalist undercover in a wish-granting, feminist empowerment website (99k upmarket feminist horror). Main stuff below but here's a few more things including the all-important trope slide:) bsky.app/profile/will...

I'm closer to the shiny gold effect here on the title, still can't get it to bloody animate though. Will have to go back to Canva school!

Text says: A Novel - 99k words

A feminst wellness website

GILT

An upmarket speculative feminist horror (aren't all horror's speculative? What do I know)

Then it says 'A podcast journalist investigates a feminist wish granting website - and her wish goes wrong'

Then it says 'By Willard Foxton' (me) then #Questpit

It's all about me! I'm Willard Foxton, award winning journalist.

It says:

Willard Foxton, award winning journalist

3 of the podcasts he developed have become world no.1s

9 have been optioned by film or TV companies

Then it gives you six of my best shows -
THE GIRLFRIENDS (Ambie Winner 2024, World no1)
KILL LIST (British Podcast Awards Gold, Show of the year 2025, World no1)
HARSH REALITY (ARIA Gold Winner 2022, World no1)
STOLEN HEARTS (USA No1, with Kerry Godliman, Cop and Robber meet online dating jfc the best pitch, a TRUE story)
COME BY CHANCE (Canadian No 1)
FILTHY RITUAL (UK No1)

Themes and Tropes as the heading - The classic book tropes and themes slide! All images from istockphoto

Found family - Image of three female friends - Alice has to rely on Tally, a youtube witch to explain the magic to her; by the end they're like sisters.

Repressed Sapphic yearning - image is silhouette of two women about to kiss - Subplot about our witch falling for Alice's closeted researcher, Paige.

Dark Academia - image of Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, which is in the book - Gilt's magic originated in a centuries old proto-feminist cult at Oxford University and to shut it down they have to bargain with its leader, the discoverer of magic.

Strong Queer/Trans themes - image of Leland Bobbé’s fantastic 2012 photo sequence 'half-drag' - Draws on author's time on the drag scene and undercover reporting experience; years of wondering which self is real.

Questioning #Girlboss feminism - Images is a notebook, stylish glasses, pink perfume and a wedding/engagement ring beside them in a soapdish, on a pink background - Gilt is Lean-In by magic; the nightmare arithmetic of its founders that if 999 women are destroyed by it, that's fine if the 1000th becomes perfect.

Deep Magic System - image is a Ouija board with a voodoo doll on it Based on the real occultist John Dee's Monas Hierglyphica. Oh and Tally has a Ouija board tattooed on her back. In french. Which gives you an idea of how she rolls...

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What if SERIAL🎙️ was undercover inside THE SUBSTANCE💉? GILT, my 99k upmarket feminist horror. A podcast journalist infiltrates an empowering wellness website that rewrites women into whatever they type in, and it starts to perfect her. Imagine: NEEDFUL THINGS👹 x GOOP🧘‍♀️ #questpit #Q #A #H #T #U #S

The front cover of Gilt, mocking up the website's design - cream, classy, like a luxury hotel or spa.

I spent bloody ages trying to make a gif of GILT that would make it look gold and shiny and animated but couldn't get it to work, but YOU dear alt text reader, you know my plan!

The text says "GILT: The literally empowering feminist wellness website" and beneath it is the tagline "Type in your fantasy, Gilt will do the rest. What do you want?"

It also tells you this is an upmarket feminist horror novel, complete at 99k words, by WB Foxton, for #Questpit

This is the Comp titles page and has images of the covers of my four comps. It says:

On the Waterstones/Barnes and Noble table with -

Bunny by Mona Awad
Cover: Bunny's is a pink flash with a pencil drawn bunny on it
Comp: Weird dark humour, the seduction of losing yourself and liking it

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Cover: Natural Beauty's cover is a pair of female hands rubbing an expensive cream into them
Comp: Its satire of wellness and what the world demands of women

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Cover: A woman obscured by water running down a pane of glass
Comp: The creeping horror of your body and self quietly transforming

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Cover: A spooky looking house in black, with a red moon rising behind it
Comp: Modern women find ancient magic and a propulsive thriller plot

If you haven't read any of these, you should! They're all brilliant!

The first page of Gilt, titled EXTRACT: A FREE TRIAL OF GILT

There's an intro with some good jokes, but I only have 2k characters here, so the meat is: Alice comes home, we establish she's broken up with her horrible boyfriend Dan, and she's searching her bin for a reddit post because Nora, her source, has vanished. Fake reddit post below.

u/MedGirlLost • 2 days ago
Title: I was Nora. Gilt made me “Amber the nurse.”
I was in med school. Fourth year. Top of my cohort. My name was Nora. I was going to be a surgeon. Then I submitted a fantasy to GILT. Once.
There was this nurse on my rotation: tight uniform, perfect makeup, every man – the residents, the paramedics, the patients – tripping over themselves to help her. I had the degree, the discipline, the plan… but she had them wanting. I was invisible.
I typed in “I want to be simple and sexy. Like the nurse they can’t stop staring at.”
It’s just a website. I thought it was harmless.
Now? My ID says Amber Leigh, my Instagram is full of selfies in pink scrubs I don’t remember taking. My voice got soft. I giggle. I fuck. A lot.
I’ve stopped caring about money, politics, the news. About being right. About people I love. I don’t know my own brain. My own emotions.
Everyone acts like I was always Amber! Professors, old friends, classmates, even my mom. It’s like the world, idk, rebooted around my fantasy, erasing the girl I was. Even as I type this I feel her creeping in. Nora would never type ‘idk’.
Sometimes I wake up and remember I’m me. Mostly, I wake up horny next to a stranger, late for my nursing shift and think: “Uhhh, where’s my lip gloss?”
And I like it. And that scares me.
TL;DR: GILT changed me. It changed reality. And I think I’m disappearing.

The final line is faded, as if Nora is literally disappearing before your eyes...

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sorta: Archers done of a kit mix here. Also converted the (lovely) knights for squares too

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Trump adding more gold to the whitehouse every week is like a running gag in a sitcom now

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Did it, looking forward to listening

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Great bit in James Marriott’s substack @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Music taste by pop music fandom. Reform voters love Lily Allen apparently?!

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Grey knight vs Genestealer Magus, from the Genestealer space hull expansion, by MG

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

One of my favourite tropes is entrepreneurs constantly reinventing the bus

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Going to make these ancient space crusade tarantulas into pintle cannons for heresy land raiders, but such incredible nostalgia pieces!

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Going to make these ancient space crusade tarantulas into pintle cannons for heresy land raiders, but such incredible nostalgia pieces!

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Oooh Stephen King (yes that one) liked one of my recent podcasts, the latest series of DOCTOR DEATH

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ooooh, between DR DEATH: THE COWBOY, GIRLFRIENDS: TRUST ME BABE, COLOUR/CUT/KILL and U R NEXT, there’s four shows I worked on that are in the top thirty in the charts right now.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"So what you in for?" "Browsing a Québécois Website in English without meeting the set criteria" “You mean, “Naviguer en anglais sur un site Web du Québec sans respecter les critères établis”, bitch?” <Stairwell beating sounds>

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Hands down my favourite law: Québéc's law preventing you from reading their website in English

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Very sad about John Blanche passing. Here's a pic of the last time me and the rest of HATE (Hackney Area Tabletop Enthusiasts) threw dice with the big man, back in 2019

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Quote with a fictional band that isn’t spinal tap bsky.app/profile/alex...

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The other thing to say about this is: it’s good politics partly because people really care about this, but also because in the context of a mega-city budget, it’s nothing. Britain in particular suffers from being terrible at spending small sums on things that matter

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A truly incredible Gaslands army crosses the TL, so good I had to share it

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The level of antisemitism in cartoons of Zack Polanski is MENTAL. This is from the telegraph; but the inability of british political cartoonists to get the racism dial below "Der Sturmer" is truly incredible

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