The End! And Guessing Post!

[holmesticemods]

Well, that's it for this round!

We've posted exchange gifts for 41 fanwork creators in just under 2 weeks.

Reveals and the master list will be posted on the summer solstice - Monday, June 20th.

In the mean time, read the fic or view the art or listen to the podfic. And comment here or our AO3 collection to let these creators know how much we've all appreciated their work.

If you'd like to take a guess about who created which work, feel free to leave it in the comments. But we won't tell until the 20th. :)

Comments

Audiovisual deductions

[graycardinal]

In some ways, this is a fiendishly complicated round in which to make guesses; OTOH, in certain cases, the math is pretty straightforward – at least, so long as one can rely on the gifts as posted to match the offers as made in the signups. (Go go Gadget spreadsheet!)

We have, for instance, two excellent vids this round, and two players who offered to make vids. A combination of external evidence makes one of the two attributions nearly certain, and that neatly ties off the other.

Something Good (Will Come From That) – sanguinity
How Long – knowmefirst

Similarly, we have two podfics and three would-be providers of podfic...but both podfics are derived from BBC/Sherlock stories, and I think it’s safe to assume that gardnerhill is an unlikely creator for either of those. That sorts the other two out neatly:

En Passant – jagnikjen
Who is the Lamb? – rachelindeed

Art is a little trickier. We have four artworks in the round, (three BBC, one ACD) six prospective creators, and none of the recipients of art eliminate themselves by having offered to create it. On the other hand, of the six potential artists, three offered art exclusively, and one of the remaining three estimated a 5% of committing fic rather than art. This set of guesses is therefore more speculative than the prior two, but I should at least have the dimensions of the pool about right:

Positive Reinforcement – kinkajou
The Evolution Of Johnlock – penumbria_fics
A Time For Us – theanglophile
Till the very fire touched them – camillo1978

Prose fic guesswork coming later in the week (I am going to be Very Busy for the next 24 hours or so).

Re: Audiovisual deductions

[sanguinity]

...you are going to come back and make your prose guesses, right? It always entertains me to watch you try to be sneaky.

Re: Audiovisual deductions

[graycardinal]

Working on it. That said -- one hardly needs to practice misdirection when one hasn't been tagged for anything to this point. Give me something to work with, now, and I'll see what I can do.... :-)

Re: Audiovisual deductions

[sanguinity]

I would if I could, but it was barely sporting last round, I knew so many things. It's definitely not sporting this round.

Re: Audiovisual deductions

[sanguinity]

I'd ask to know what external evidence makes one of those two attributions nearly certain, but I'm guessing the stack of HOUN liveblogs in my journal might have helped facilitate your guessing. Or maybe the way I told you where you could find source for 1994 Baker Street. Or really, any number of other things. ;-)

But congratulations, you guessed correctly! Would you enjoy prompting a vidlet? It's part of the fun for me to offer a treat to people who guess me correctly, and as it happens I have a TON of mostly-untapped Holmesian source and content notes burning a hole in my hard drive.

So, prompt a vidlet? Topic or 'verse, please. Obvs nearly anything in the vid is a go, but also a few more 'verses besides, like Bravestarr/23C and various things that never made it into the vid. Try me. :-)

Re: Audiovisual deductions

[graycardinal]

:-) Indeed, all those liveblogs were a non-trivial clue.

As to a vidlet...hmm. Let me toss out a couple of thoughts:

(1) This song from Pippin (assuming LJ will let the link through) has long been a favorite of mine, and in the wake of the present vid it occurs to me (notwithstanding a gender-specific lyric or two) that there might be a window into one or another Holmesian canon from there.

(2) Alternately, going in a completely different direction, something Lestrade-centric from 22CEN will always be greeted with delight from this quarter.