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

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Hang on. Hang on one jolly minute. The "Who Is The Lamb?" podfic and the fic The Way to a Man's Heart were produced by the same person. The Way to a Man's Heart is 21,000 words long. I agree that gardnerhill will not have produced two BBC Sherlock works. But neither rachelindeed nor jagnikjen write fics of that length. So I think rachelindeed may be right - the fic, and therefore the podfic, belong to swissmarg.

Mr. Holmes, I'm afraid I'm going to leave logic behind now and rely on my female intuition ^^ If we say jagnikjen is responsible for the other podfic, then that probably means rachelindeed has written a fic. And there's one particular fic that has been puzzling me: a rare 'verse that was only listed by the fic's recipient, and a fic that I thought had been written by sanguinity before Something Good (Will Come From That) happened. A fic packed with brilliant ideas and connections, a relatively short fic, a fic in which Mycroft comes to the fore, a fic that rachelindeed hasn't commented on...

I think Art in the Blood (http://holmestice.livejournal.com/400751.html) is by rachelindeed.


Some other guesses:

I think The Prince-Detective and the Several Types of Beans (http://holmestice.livejournal.com/398938.html) is by hiddenlacuna. The confident, seemingly effortless, sustained humour makes me think of their work.

And purely going by a process of elimination - I'm not familiar with their work - I think my excellent gift fic Mrs. Hudson’s Unique Tenants (http://holmestice.livejournal.com/409309.html") is by piplover.


Thank you to the mods for all your hard work, and well done to everyone who took part!

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

I just want to say I'm delighted you guessed mine -- I really didn't think anyone would! Bravo!!

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

It's so odd - I think part of my brain always knew the fic was yours. When I first read it, I thought: I'm having a strong emotional reaction - just like when I read rachelindeed's fic in the last round. And: Isn't it strange Rachel hasn't commented on this fic yet? - It's just the sort of thing that would appeal to her ^_^ But I never consciously connected it with you - because I didn't connect you with the 'verse. And when it turned out there were two podfics, I assumed the En Passant one had to be yours, and the other (plus fic) was by jagnikjen.

It was only when you talked about The Way to a Man's Heart probably being by swissmarg, and graycardinal attributed her podfic to you, that I thought: Well, that doesn't make sense. And I finally had a light bulb moment ^_^

[sanguinity]

:: It's just the sort of thing that would appeal to her ^_^ ::

My usual tip-off that someone wrote a thing is the overwhelming urge to rec it to them IMMEDIATELY. It's usually while I'm typing up why it's such a PERFECT fit for their tastes, it's like it was WRITTEN FOR THEM that I realize what's happening.

[sanguinity]

I can't tell you how flattered I was to be a provisional guess for 'Art in the Blood.' :-)

Part of the fun of Holmestice for me is to offer treats to people who correctly guess my contribution(s). Would you enjoy prompting a vidlet? Topic or 'verse, and lookit, here's a handy list of suggested 'verses! Or another 'verse, if you'd rather: there's actually a bunch of stuff on my hard-drive that never made it into the vid, try me. (No BBC Sherlock, please, because I just don't have much of anything to offer there.)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Well, you know you're an exceptional writer ^^

And that's so generous of you ^_^ (I was just thinking it's lucky that not everyone decided to take part in the guessing post because I fancy you might have ended up being very busy indeed ^_^)

I must admit I don't have to give my choice of 'verse much thought - would something based on The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) be possible? The Roxburgh and Hart one? Ian Hart is probably my favourite Watson. I've actually just recently read your post on the production - Roxburgh's Holmes is an interesting version but it always saddens me that Hart's Watson never got a "proper" Holmes. (I know he played with Rupert Everett too but Everett's Holmes didn't grab me either.)

[sanguinity]

Heh, during the first hours of the guessing post, I had my doubts about whether offering treats would be feasible! But then y'all got tired of typing out my name, so it worked out okay. :-)

Oo, Hart's Watson! Yes, I'm pretty sure I still have source for that (and if not, can lay hands on it again). Let me see what I can work up for him.