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caasbrey

@caasbrey.bsky.social

C. A. Asbrey is a Scottish mystery author. Fan of all things Victorian, obscure, forensics, jaywalking, ordering the best meal, and dropping out of society. https://caasbrey.com/ https://www.facebook.com/mysteryscrivener/

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Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚@jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social · 3h ago

Sept 7, 2026 🧑‍🏫🧑‍🌾👩‍🍳🧑‍🔧👩‍🏭👩‍💼🧑‍🔬🧑‍✈️👩‍🚀👩‍🚒👮‍♂️👷‍♂️

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The Duke of Brittany 2 @dukeofbrittany2.bsky.social · 4d ago

👌👌👌👌👌

Mystic Muse @cloudrider53.bsky.social · 2d ago

Exactly!

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · yesterday

Me: *Sits down to write*
Computer: ohhh I smell an update.
Me: Don’t you dare.
Computer: Update right now. Okay?
Me: I will dethrone your god.
Computer: after you watch this circle spin, peasant.

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · yesterday

Slangwhanger 1. One who verbally attacked others; usually politicians, newspaper columnists, or in-air personalities.
“He’s been a slangwhanger for so long that he’s forgotten to how to have a normal conversation anymore; he literally can’t help himself.”

JULIE @rarebeef.bsky.social · last wk.

I know, my OCD has a hard time shelving these incongruities....

William D. Prystauk @prystauk.bsky.social · 6d ago

TRUTH!

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 3d ago

You’re doing a lot of scrolling for someone who has a book to read.

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lurdan 1. An idle or incompetent person. A lay or dull individual.
“he lugubrious lurdan lolled listlessly in the lamplit lounge, labour-shy, leaden-witted, and laughably lacking the least lick of laudable likeability.”

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 5d ago

A child who reads will be an adult who thinks.

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 5d ago

Minnesinger 1. One of a class of medieval German poets or troubadours.
“The Minnesinger grew suddenly abashed and passed the evening behind the curtains whence issued an occasional, apologetic sigh.”

Kate Duvall @kateduvall.bsky.social · 6d ago

My mom got very upset the first time she saw grade-school-age kids browsing graphic novels at a bookstore. But she calmed down pretty quickly once my dad and I explained to her what those books actually were.

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 6d ago

Shout out to the woman last night who asked me what I did and when I told her I wrote graphic novels for children, looked appalled and asked what kind of market there was writing erotica for kids.

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 6d ago

Compeer 1. A peer, an equal, an associate. 2. A close friend or companion.
“Though they bickered about such trivialities as fonts and semicolons, she regarded him as her compeer in all matters typographical."

Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚@jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social · 7d ago

Goodbye August & Welcome.. @piperformissouri.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @corrina.sheshed.rocks @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social @docsociology.bsky.social @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @jbminatra.bsky.social @lyndapole.bsky.social @j1j2.bsky.social

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caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 7d ago

My dream afterlife is simple; reincarnate me as a sleepy bookstore cat that judges people’s reading choices from a sunny windowsill.

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 7d ago

Mountebank 1. A Hawkeye of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks. A quack doctor; snake oil salesman; charlatan.
“The decrepit old mountebank shuffles about, a dottard who knows not the difference betwixt saviour and healer, and is equally unfit for either.”

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · last wk.

Height differences are great as long as they are not between two books from the same series.

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · last wk.

Bully-rook 1. A blustering ruffian; a swaggering fellow; a hectoring or overbearing companion. A bragging cheater.
“That bumptious bully-rook mistakes ostentation for elegance and prolixity for persuasion, incognitantly extemporising with quotidian consistency.”

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Coal Dust on the Fiddle (And other old-timey names for STDs)

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kingling 1. A little king; a weak, petty, or insignificant potentate.
“The incontinent kingling doth mistake loud noise for power, vaunting bluster for strength, and the fawning praises of obsequious fools, their noses as feculent as their flattery, for respect; yet he is but a rank lech and perfidious liar, revelling in the company of strumpets, who fattens oil the bribes of the rich whilst plucking the last poor sustenance from the hands of the destitute.”

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

*Reads TLDR*
Everyone; Too long. Didn’t read.
My brain: The Lord Da Rings

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Zabernism 1. Unjustified or unwarranted use of military authority; military jackbootery; abusive bullying.
“The fascist leader’s deployment of soldiers against the very citizens it was meant to protect will always be remembered as vainglorious zabernism.”

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

I still read fairytales, they’re just spicy now.

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Caparison 1. Rich clothing; adornment. An ornamental covering for a horse.
“Even the humblest attendants were not exempt from the day’s grandeur, each clad in modest yet carefully wrought caparison that spoke to the king’s devotion.”

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Me: We’re all gathered here today because*

*glares at authors*

Me: . . . couldn’t keep our favourite character alive.

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Confarreation 1. An ancient form of marriage ceremony marked by the offering of a cake.
“Beneath the watchful gaze of ancestral busts, their union was sealed in solemn confarreation, the sacred cake broken and shared cake broken and shared as a covenant of a life thenceforth indivisible.”

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

When you finish a book and it makes you think thoughts you never thunk before.

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Skint 1. Having no money; broke as a joke.
“Begging your pardon, good sir, you present as a gentleman of most commendable pecuniary abundance, whilst I am, alas, thoroughly skint; might you, perchance, command a superfluity of specie to begrace upon a most necessitous soul?”

caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 3w ago

Erotic literature for Premature Ejaculators
Chapter 1
He looked at her.
The End.