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. :)

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Prose deductions/guesses (1 of 2)

[graycardinal]

With thanks to sanguinity for the reminder, herewith guesswork as to prose authors. Note that a good deal of this is very much guesswork rather than deduction, and (also as implied by sanguinity) that in order to be complete, one or two of the guesses here and in the next post may be deliberately wrong (since I must have written something in the round...).

With two exceptions, I'm omitting any guesswork for BBC/Sherlock stories on grounds of non-familiarity with the fandom. Those two exceptions are "The Prince-Detective and the Several Types of Beans" (because it's a fairy tale) and "Date Night" (because it's Star Trek), and I can resist neither crossover/AU. The challenge is to pick candidates from a field where I'm less familiar with the contributors, so these are relatively speculative guesses.

"Prince-Detective": cleflink
"Date Night": pippnfrodo

Next we have two singular fandoms, Murder by Decree (gifted to me), and Watson & Holmes (gifted to sanguinity). The first of these (as noted upstream) is problematic in that there were no offers for Decree; the second is a little more interesting.

scfrankles has made an intriguing guess for "Art in the Blood", but I'm going to go in another direction. Of the handful of individuals who might have written it, I'm going to eliminate both gardnerhill and sanguinity; both are certainly literate in the fandom, but both have also written for me in past rounds, and I think both are much likelier authors of other works in this round. And matching gardnerhill with sanguinity is a little too easy as well. But I do think I see a familiar hand in this story, from an author whose work I've seen before....

"Art in the Blood": rabidsamfan
"A Time to Remember": venusinthenight

There are two Ritchie-movie stories in the round. I was initially tempted to theorize that methylviolet10b wrote one of these and was gifted with the other, but ultimately I think "Loose End" has to be gardnerhill's contribution to the round.

"My Dear Watson": monkiainen
"Loose End": gardnerhill

We have two Elementary stories, and this too is interesting, because my candidate for the author of "Bee Yourself" did not offer for Elementary . I have two reasons for this guess: one is that said author is on record with certain other bee-related Holmesian weirdness, and the other is that I do not think it's coincidence that the first giver of kudos to that work on AO3 is a known associate of said author.

That leaves "Flowers Can Say More Than I Ever Could". Fortunately, prior guesses knock out a couple of otherwise possible candidates, and I feel safe in making a guess from among those remaining.

"Bee Yourself": sanguinity
"Flowers Can Say...": horrorfangirl

There are three stories for My Dearly Beloved Detective, and (after eliminating candidates I've slotted in elsewhere) three prospective authors available. Luckily for me, two of these are also recipients, which further limits the variables. I think this shakes out as follows:

"my tired soul on fire": k_e_p
"so that you will hear me": phoenixfalls
"The Hue and Cry": garonne

And this has gone on long enough that I'm going to stop here, and do the ACD stories in a separate post.

Re: Prose deductions/guesses (1 of 2)

[sanguinity]

*cackles madly*

*chinhands for part two*

Re: Prose deductions/guesses (1 of 2)

[graycardinal]

Heh. If memory serves, mad cackling is probably a sign that I've gone seriously astray (or, in this case, humorously astray) on at least some of these.

Re: Prose deductions/guesses (1 of 2)

[sanguinity]

Or perhaps I just like The Parts About Me. :-)

It is also possible that I am cackling at Grrlpup, who is claiming that she is an Independent Person Who Makes Her Own Reading Choices.

Re: Prose deductions/guesses (1 of 2)

[graycardinal]

Amused R Us. There's independence, and there's suspiciously prompt timing; the two are not mutually exclusive. :-)

And now you can drop into the next post and tell me how well I've succeeeded or failed at sneakiness....

Re: Prose deductions/guesses (1 of 2)

[sanguinity]

Nor are they exclusive of us sitting on the couch together and me shouting, "Oo, Joan is a bee!" and her responding with a "Where!?" and a kudos. :-)