Guessing Post

[holmesticemods]

Thank you so much for another wonderful round of Holmestice! The mods want to say THANK YOU to all the creators who joined us for this round. You put in a lot of hard work and made some really great fanworks.

Reveals and the Master List go up on June 28th. Until then, please enjoy and comment on all the lovely fanworks. Creators, please do NOT respond to Dreamwidth comments or post your fanwork elsewhere on the Internet until reveals go up in the community. (You may of course reply to comments on AO3, which preserves your anonymity.)

But we're not done yet -- treats are coming right up! We'll continue to accept treats right through until reveals, so if there's a prompt for which you want to whip something up, please do! Just send it to holmesticemods@gmail.com using the regular submission guidelines.

If you'd like to guess at who created what in this round, a list of all the contributors -- including treat-makers -- is below the cut. Go ahead and take a guess! It's all in good fun.

ETA: Eeep! The earlier version of the list of creators had some errors, but it should be right now! (We hope!)


a_different_equation
alexcat
ancientreader
angelqueen04
camillo1978
clearinghouse
colebaltblue
discordantwords
dogandmonkeyshow
dryadinthegrove
gardnerhill
graycardinal
ireallyshouldbedrawing
iwantthatcoat
marta_bee
monkiainen
nairobiwonders
nottoolateforthegame
oldshrewsburyian
rachelindeed
sanguinity
sanspatronymic
tazlet
trobadora
valdavermillion
write_out


Go forth and leave love for your fellow Holmestice authors, artists, vidders, and podficcers. See you again on the 28th, when we reveal who made what!

Comments

[write_out]

Thanks to the mods and creators for another excellent round of Holmestice! I've enjoyed all of the gifts very much. It's fun to dip my toes into 'verses I'm not familiar with and to see different sides of our beloved characters.

My only guess so far is ireallyshouldbedrawing for the fantastic art "For Science." Other than that, I have no idea! Good excuse to go back and reread!

[rachelindeed]

Thank you so much to the mods for keeping this exchange going strong! I have a lot of catching up still to do with both reading and reviewing, but I have enjoyed everything so much - thanks to everyone for sharing your beautiful works!

I have SO MANY GUESSES this round, I'm kind of shocked at myself?!? I've been keeping a little list as the entries have been posted, and some of my guesses I feel quite confident about while others are a lot more speculative. But what the heck, I'm going to just throw out a quick and unadorned list of my 'for the record' guesses before SCFrankles arrives to deliver the definitive deductions!

MY GUESSES:

Shut Up and Drive vid = sanguinity

Can't Stay Angry art = clearinghouse (thank you again for such a delightful gift!)

Sweetest Friend...You Stubborn Man art = nairobiwonders

Writeout has already guessed ireallyshouldbedrawing for "For Science" and I 100% agree.

Nee Kitty Winter = ancientreader

The Adventure of the Retired Novelist = gardnerhill

Making a Case = trobadora

Carpe Vinum = WriteOut

In darkness I call your name (and you mine) = a_different_equation

Untold Stories = discordantwords

The Adventure of the Blue Parrot = tazlet

Escapade = graycardinal

Mentor = oldshrewsburyian

The Strange Tale of Charon's Obol = navaan

The Norbury Possibility = angelqueen04

Time Best Spent = alexcat

[holmesticemods]

Our apologies, but the first version of the list of creators had a couple of errors. We've corrected it now (we hope!), but at least one of those errors has squirmed its way into your guesses -- so sorry!

[graycardinal]

[working steadily away at the Spreadsheet of Doom]

Judging by the initial mass of "possible" tickyboxes, this may end up being a singularly challenging round aside from one or two really obvious deductions.

Meanwhile, just to make things interesting, two truths and a lie:

(1) My contribution is written in first person.
(2) My contribution neither mentions nor features Mycroft.
(3) My contribution is not a crossover.

[rachelindeed]

Such an intriguing clue, it seems a shame not to take another crack at guessing your contribution! So here we go...

My initial guess for you was "Escapade," because the recipient mentioned an interest in pastiche in their sign-up and also because you seemed the most likely to be familiar with such an obscure 'verse. And your clues just barely fit "Escapade" - it's written in first person, it's not a crossover, and there is one brief reference to Mycroft. So my initial guess might still be correct.

But your clues seem a better fit for the fic that was my second-choice guess for you, "By Any Other Name." And, in looking at your sign-ups, I can see that you could very easily have been matched with AngelQueen04 on the basis of Mary Russell and then decided to switch up the 'verse you actually created for (sneaky!!)

So, yes, on reflection I believe it's more likely you are responsible for this lovely Enola and Mycroft fic.

Which leaves the perennial mystery of who the heck went out and found the Holmes vs. Houdini comic for this Holmestice? Bless them, whoever they are! I am firm in committing gardnerhill to your equally obscure Solar Pons fic, so I am going to guess...Iwantthatcoat for "Escapade." They like challenging assignments and said they'd be willing to look up source material for an unfamiliar part of the fandom in order to please their recipient :)

So, my revised guesses:

Escapade = iwantthatcoat

By Any Other Name = graycardinal

Guesswork of Doom (Act I)

[graycardinal]

I may actually be getting better at this Spreadsheet of Doom business...but we'll see. The good news is that a sizeable chunk of the work is done; the bad news is that almost none of it appears to have done much good in narrowing the pool on the ACD-canon side of the equation. If the columnar data is to be believed, the half-dozen recipients of ACD stories map virtually exactly onto the half-dozen writers of ACD stories, which seems entirely too tidy to be plausible -- and yet, there it is.

So: herewith guesses for all the non-ACD prose entries plus the podfic. ACD and artwork will be along later....

Vid
Shut Up and Drive: sanguinity

Even if there weren't only one vid offer in the spreadsheet, this one would be ridiculously obvious.

Podfic
Mentor: marta_bee

My problem here is that of the three people who offered podfic, one is this gift's recipient, one has left a comment and kudos over on AO3, and I'm almost certain the third has to have written one of the "Study in Emerald" fics. By extrapolation, that means the podfic is either a double work or a pinch hit, and I choose to guess the latter.

BBC/Sherlock
Carpe Vinum: discordantwords
Lilacs: write_out
One Tale in Four Books: dogandmonkeyshow
Untold Stories: dryadinthegrove

Despite not actually having seen much BBC/Sherlock, I think I'm getting a handle on the writers of such in our little pond. (Also, one of these can be deduced from external data, and that helps sort out the others.)

Elementary
Case of the Missing Detective: magnetic_pole

Study in Emerald
Making a Case: trobadora
Charon's Obol: oldshrewsburyian

This pair of guesses is extrapolated partly from known Moriarty partisanship and partly from reconsideration of signup material.

Enola Holmes
By Any Other Name: marta_bee
Norbury Possibility: angelqueen04

Two Enola Holmes stories, three offers...but gardnerhill is committed elsewhere, and while it's theoretically possible sanguinity wrote one of these in addition to the vid, the overall math says that's unlikely. That says one of these may be a pinch hit. (It also says I may be wrong about the podfic guess, but what can you do?)

Houdini vs. Holmes
Escapade: clearinghouse

To judge from the signups, the likeliest writer of this story is its recipient...except that multiple datapoints make that impossible. This is my next-best guess.

Solar Pons (etc.)
The Retired Novelist: tazlet

I almost assigned this elsewhere, but then I happened to glance back at the signups, and I do believe my estimable creator gave the game away with certain remarks about one of the crossover characters in this delightful romp.

Rathbone films
The Blue Parrot: gardnerhill

Having concluded that gardnerhill didn't write my gift story, this is the only other piece in the round that strikes me as having the particular buckle and swash that we've come to associate with the Queen of Versatility....
[ETA: Except of course that they left the first comment on this story, and I don't think we've gotten that sneaky around here even yet. Must rethink....]

Ritchie films
Time Best Spent: colebaltblue

Instinct drives this guess. Instinct has not always served me well in these endeavors, but there you are.

Re: Guesswork of Doom (Act I)

[dryadinthegrove]

Nope!

Re: Guesswork of Doom (Act I)

[graycardinal]

A very, very late observation, with respect to "The Retired Novelist":

In leaping on the Dr. Strange references in tazlet's signup, I overlooked a singular and non-trivial clue in the anonymous author's reply to my comment over on AO3 -- namely, their reference to the character of Diana Winthrop and the nod in the story to some of that character's relatives. That clue points in an entirely different direction, because it very strongly indicates that the author is a reader either of my own DW journal or (more likely) the fic_corner exchange's DW community.

And that clue points not only away from tazlet, but toward a writer no one else has tagged for the story: namely, sanguinity herself.

I am torn. I don't think it's impossible; she's done multiple gifts before, and is certainly capable of having written the story, but the style is somewhat different from her usual, and I have been severely misled before in assigning work to sanguinity that's not hers at all.

OTOH, it would explain a great deal about some of the conversations in the guessing post this round....

[dogandmonkeyshow]

I don't read enough fic to feel qualified to hazard a guess for most of the fics I read. I was thinking that perhaps WriteOut had written my gift, Carpe Vinum, as, IIRC, s/he was the only other participant to offer Sally & Greg in their sign-up. Not that genfic matches are that specific, but...

Guess on my gift..Blue Parrot

[(Anonymous)]

At first I thought of Gardnerhill. I'm still new here, and have much to read and learn regarding styles, but it was a previous discussion about a love of history in the comments on Poppies that was sending my mind that way. But then, I was noticing things that made me think the writer had read Nanti Polari and knew a bit of what directions I went there to sort of determine what I might particularly enjoy ( and enjoy I did!), and in reading those comments, I have now decided to go with Rachelindeed..

Re: Guess on my gift..Blue Parrot

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I thought I was logged in when I posted this!
This is Iwantthatcoat

Guesswork of Doom (Act II) - Art, Podfic

[graycardinal]

I am deeply dissatisfied with the Spreadsheet of Doom's performance on the artwork in this round. You'd think that with six art offers and a pinch hitter known for art, it wouldn't be hard to sort out the five art pieces in the gallery.

No such luck. Two of the five seem to sort themselves out almost at once, and a good look at the "kudos" lists on AO3 seems to settle two more, but that leaves the fifth stubbornly unattributed...with the only two open spaces on the spreadsheet indicating the two artists I thought most clearly identifiable for other entries!

Ah, well. Here are the four guesses based on what I fondly hope to be some degree of logic:

After A Case: valdavermillion
Astronomical Significance: nairobiwonders
For Science: ireallyshouldbedrawing
Sweetest Friend: camillo1978

And now, the guess based on throwing a bunch of confetti in the air and studying the patterns it forms as it lands on the floor:

Can't Stay Angry: graycardinal

[blinks, rereads confetti]

Gah. That certainly can't be right -- my one brief foray into cartooning, decades back, involved drawing doors with word balloons coming from behind them -- but there are literally no likelier candidates I can justify (I am fairly sure two of my potential artists wrote fic instead, and rachelindeed certainly didn't draw her own gift.

Which brings us, actually, to the one podfic in the round:

Mentor (podfic): rachelindeed

Barring a stealth pod-recorder somewhere in the pool, I think this is a safe prediction.

And this has gone long enough that we'll save the problem of the Blue Parrot for another entry.

[scfrankles]

Sorry I’m late to the party. I’ve been spending a lot of time recently making use of my Poor-But-Honest Shopgirl persona and unfortunately I’m now so deep undercover I had to help with the stock-take.

Anyway, here’s my first batch of guesses.

*flips open notebook*

Let us begin with The Curious Case of Rachelindeed. Ah, Rachel, Rachel, Rachel… I could point out that a particular fic is pretty much perfect for you and yet you have not left kudos or commented on it, nor have you recced it on Tumblr. I could point out it involves a favourite canon story of yours and a favourite character, Mycroft. I could add that the fic contains your trademark fresh ideas and rethinking of canon. However, on first reading I didn’t even need to get that far to identify it as yours, as the notes on AO3 began: Thank you for everything you do, colebaltblue, we’re so lucky to have you as a moderator for this exchange! If you want to hide your identity, madam, you’re going to have to get to work on curbing those good manners and generosity of spirit.

I think The Better Part of Valour is by rachelindeed.


The Adventure of the Retired Novelist: The Simply Unacceptable Version: This was a perhaps surprisingly easy one. Last Holmestice I got rather carried away and analysed one author’s formatting to a somewhat thorough degree. That author often used the distinctive pattern “word, double hyphen, space, word” and was fond of ellipses. In this fic, I have to admit we don’t see the pattern “word, double hyphen, space, word”. However, we do see the pattern “word, em dash, space, word” twelve times, and there are thirty-two ellipses. Also the writer has replied to comments. This always gives an investigator an advantage - the skilled writer can remove their personality entirely from a fic but they tend to be consistently the same person in headers, notes and comments. One last thing is that the use of brief chapters to break up a relatively short fic reminds me of a particular author’s fic As Romeo to Juliet.

I think The Adventure of the Retired Novelist is by iwantthatcoat.


In Heaven and Earth: Well, firstly this was presumably written by a non-Briton and probably an American. There’s ‘savored’, ‘humor’, ‘theater’, ‘a three-hundred-pound accounts clerk’, Watson refers to Cardiff’s ‘northern weather’ but Cardiff is down the other end of Britain and lies to the west of London, Mrs. Hudson’s brother is called ‘Augie’ rather than ‘Gus’. Also, this is an ACD fic but I counted quite a few nods to the Sherlock fandom, so I assume this is someone who sees Sherlock as their main Holmesian fandom. The author is, obviously, a Doctor Who fan. There are endnotes. The quality of the writing is high, and there is that extra touch of erudition of using Latin in the fic. Putting all that information together, I think this is a pinch-hit by marta_bee.


Making a Case: As this is a Holmes & Moriarty fic, and the recipient didn’t specifically ask for that pairing, it naturally immediately narrows the field to a particular couple of suspects--one of whom we now know has dropped out. But as back-up evidence, I recently noticed one of those two authors has one distinctive piece of formatting--they put a space after a word before adding an ellipsis. There is only one ellipsis in this fic but there is a space in front of it. I am pretty confident this work is by trobadora.


Podfic for Mentor: As thesoulofdiscretion/clearinghouse says in the comments, Though possibly that beta-listener should be REDACTED? Indeed the author probably should have asked for it to be redacted because a quick look at AO3 and it’s immediately apparent that gentle_herald is friends and literary colleagues with... oldshrewsburyian.


The Green-Eyed Detective: I noticed a little bit of unusual formatting in this. After a word or phrase in italics, the author leaves a space before adding any punctuation after it. They also use a single hyphen rather than an em dash. And this is an ACD fic but I assumed they saw Sherlock as their major Holmesian fandom because in the AO3 tags they have ‘Jealous Sherlock’ rather than ‘Jealous Holmes’. I had a couple of writers in mind and when I checked the AO3 fics for the first I immediately got a match for the formatting. I believe the author to be nottoolateforthegame.


Escapade: An author quickly came to mind for this fic. It’s a really unusual ‘verse. It’s written by a highly skilled writer. Some words are underlined for emphasis, which always makes me think of one particular writer. And this author hasn’t commented, even though this is an excellent fic and she tends to always be supportive with commenting during the exchange. I think this is by gardnerhill.

[rachelindeed]

Ha ha, the master deducer has arrived!! *cheers!* Thank goodness you were able to slip away from your persona as a mild-mannered reporter - er, a poor but honest shop girl, that is - and swoop in to solve the trickiest mysteries!

Regarding your guess about my own work - as well as graycardinal's guess - I naturally cannot comment. But I am as amused and impressed as ever to see the forensic analysis you have conducted on various authors' formatting. One of these rounds some ambitious contributor will have to pull a "Reigate Squires" feint and try to elude you by calling in a partner and writing alternate words throughout their story!

Well, presuming that your deductions are correct, I'm pleased that it looks like so far I only mixed up two authors - you have swapped the stories that I had assigned to gardnerhill and iwantthatcoat. To be honest, I'm still proud to have come that close to those two chameleons!

I look forward with great anticipation to seeing the rest of your roster :) In particular, where is sanspatronymic?? It's bothering me that I haven't figured that out...

[graycardinal]

As much as I admire (and fear) the technical acumen in these deductions, I think I have to stick by tazlet for "The Retired Novelist". A crossover featuring Dr. Stephen Strange from a writer who openly solicited a crossover featuring said Dr. Strange in their signup strikes me as entirely too specific to be coincidental.

[bag_of_onions]

Wow, these deductions are very impressive and interesting to read. This is definitely very fitting to the Sherlock theme. It's certainly more than I can do. I gave this game a try for two hours, came up with only a handful of deductions, and then promptly gave up.

In any case, I really enjoyed this round of holmestice. It's amazing how many great stories and pieces of art come of out this. Making gifts, reading others' gifts, and leaving comments is a lot of fun. Thank you so much to ireallyshouldbedrawing for your very lovely gift for me!

If it helps anyone, I did one pinch hit.

[sanguinity]

And what were your handful of deductions? You certainly don't need a complete slate to play!

Doom, Act 2.5 - Course Corrections

[graycardinal]

ACD is still pending (family has arrived in town, which is going to co-opt much of my attention temporarily), but two issues require a bit of course correction.

First, there's the problem of "The Blue Parrot", as I had failed to note the complimentary comment from gardnerhill on that story prior to assigning that guess.

Second, I note on rechecking the posts that I have accidentally made two different guesses with respect to the podfic of "Mentor". I believe both were valid when made, but the second, crediting rachelindeed is now contra-indicated by the presence of AO3 kudos.

It's extremely tempting to solve this problem by simply attributing "Blue Parrot" to rachelindeed (not least because it would help deal with another anomaly we'll get to in a moment). But that just doesn't feel quite right. While she certainly could have written that story, based purely on technical and literary considerations, the prose just doesn't feel like hers.

No, if "Blue Parrot" isn't gardnerhill, and if I haven't strayed too far afield in the rest of my assignments, then there's just one Rathbone volunteer left open on the Spreadsheet of Doom:

The Blue Parrot (revised guess): a_different_equation

////

Now I just have to work out why I have six ACD stories to assign, and eight players available to fill those six slots....

Re: Doom, Act 2.5 - Course Corrections

[iwantthatcoat]

Unless I wrote my gift for myself. Heh heh heh.

Doom, Act III - ACD at last

[graycardinal]

This actually turned out to be somewhat less difficult than I expected, although some may argue that in relying on AO3's kudos and comment data for one's deductions is less than sporting. (One cannot leave kudos on one's own work, and in the present state of the collection, one cannot comment by name on one's own work. This served to eliminate a great proportion of the choices left to me by the Spreadsheet of Doom; indeed, in one or two cases it narrowed the prospects down to a single work.

So -- guesses first, then brief discussion.

Better Part of Valour: alexcat
Green-Eyed Detective: : nottoolateforthegame
In Darkness, I Call Your Name...: gardnerhill
In Heaven and Earth: rachelindeed
Née Kitty Winter: ancientreader
Peregrinations: sanspatronymic

Oddly enough, gardnerhill was my first fill in this group, as the only ACD story on which they've left no kudo/comment-fingerprints is that named above. I bow to scfrankles' superior detective work as regards "Peregrinations", and the dominoes then fall over for two more of these guesses. I was left at the end with two stories and four authors. I strongly suspect that monkiainen may have been forced to withdraw, which narrows this to two and three. At that point I must throw up my hands in one case; I have no idea what iwantthatcoat produced this round, but I'm fairly sure it wasn't an ACD story. And between alexcat and rachelindeed, there's absolutely no doubt in my mind which one did not write "The Green-Eyed Detective".

And that, as the expression goes, is a wrap.

Re: Doom, Act III - ACD at last

[iwantthatcoat]

No idea? Does that mean I win? I think that means I win :P
I have confounded the infamous Spreadsheet of Doom!
(Actually, I am well aware it is only because you have a family and a life to attend to. Imagine that)

[scfrankles]

Another batch!


Lilacs: I had a relatively small group of Sherlock authors to pick from this time. So I did a little compare and contrast with the AO3 formatting for who I had left and I think I’ve got it. This fic has two notable aspects: ellipses always connect two words and don’t leave a space, and when a sentence ends on a hyphen, the author uses the distinctive pattern ‘word, space, hyphen, space, final punctuation.’ I will also add the back-up clue that the emphasis on books makes me think of a previous Holmestice offering ‘But the Cover was Blue!’ I think the author is dryadinthegrove.


The Strange Tale of Charon's Obol: Just really going by style and who is likely to have written a Study in Emerald fic, I think this is by alexcat.


The Adventure of the Blue Parrot: I’m not sure I would have got this if Rachel hadn’t stated her guess but… Well, all other creators who have explicitly said they wanted to write a Rathbone fic I’ve assigned elsewhere, and the formatting and writing style match. So I’m going to join Rachel in guessing this is by tazlet.


The Norbury Possibility: Just going by the rare ‘verse and what was offered in sign-ups, I think this has to be by angelqueen04.


By Any Other Name: Last Holmestice I noticed a huge tell, far too late, for one particular writer--they had their hit counters disabled on AO3. And unfortunately it seems they got wise to that and re-enabled them. Very sneaky. Very, very sneaky. So, it’s just lucky for me that they carried on using their trademark disclaimer at the beginning (‘Disclaimer’ in bold; the actual disclaimer in italics), used their trademark statement in bold to set the scene, and used their usual three hashes to end the fic. How do you like ‘em apples, graycardinal? ^___^

[graycardinal]

Three observations:

(1) The trouble with explaining one's deductions is that you can only play that sort of card once.

(2) I believe that constitutes a direct offer, much as a certain other player was offered cookies some rounds back, and subsequently received them. O beloved moderators, may I have a ruling on that one?

(3) That being the case, should your deduction prove correct, the answer is "in deep dish pie, with ice cream". [I admit that in the prior case, delivery was made easier by the coincidence of the offering and receiving parties living just across town from one another. But I am sure that a just and enterprising sleuth will be able to find a solution....]

[write_out]

All I know is that I'm in complete awe at the guesswork, as always. The deductions are cracking me up too. I can't even begin to make reasonable guesses for most of the stories myself.

You'd think only having 4 Sherlock stories would make it easier to match up authors, but nope. I see the majority of you making guesses have pinned me as author of Carpe Vinum, but am I really?? AM I??

That said, I do agree with the guess of ancientreader for "Née Kitty Winter."

[ancientreader]

Sanguinity, of course, for "Shut Up and Drive."
Rachelindeed for "The Better Part of Valor."
Discordantwords for "Untold Stories."

I have no idea why everyone is so sure I wrote "Kitty Winter."

And that's all I've got, I think. Spreadsheet of Doom, I can never meet your standard.

[rachelindeed]

I have no idea why everyone is so sure I wrote "Kitty Winter."

I'm sure that SCFrankles would have eventually arrived with an insightful analysis of whatever formatting idiosyncrasies she'd discovered, except that - given that the author note mentions that she acted as a research assistant on the fic - it would not be sporting for her to field a 'guess' on "Kitty Winter"'s authorship. So, in her honor, I will mention what clues I noticed...

The main one was simply that your personality comes through strongly in your author's note - that level of delight in research makes me think of you and sanguinity first, and sanguinity's contribution this round was obviously elsewhere :)

Also, more sneakily, I happen to know that Chryse often works with you as a beta. The mods have obligingly redacted the betas' names on the "Kitty Winter" post, but it remains the only story in this Holmestice round for which Chryse has left a comment!

[nottoolateforthegame]

I think my favorite part of Holmestice might just be the guessing game. I am taking notes on how you all do it-maybe next round I will be organized and brave enough to offer a few guesses of my own.

[sanguinity]

I love the guessing post, too. I'm so pleased to hear you're itching to join in yourself -- the more, the merrier!

And don't let the others intimidate you -- at least a couple of them talk a better game than they guess. ;-)

Tallying up

[graycardinal]

Overall, not one of my better outings insofar as accuracy is concerned. On the down side, I missed on the podfic, was only 2/5 for art, and a mere 6/19 for fic. On the plus side, I actually went 3/6 for the ACD stories, although credit for the major legwork on "Peregrinations" is properly due scfrankles.

But of course half the fun of the round is, as noted far upstream, in the popcorn-throwing and the attempts at misdirection (which mostly failed in my own case, although I am flattered in the extreme to have been even briefly considered as the author of "Escapade").

Re: Tallying up

[sanguinity]

I gotta say, I laughed when you tried using me as a beard again for your own story! (For old times' sake, was it?) Although I'm inclined to say you owe me cookies for that -- you know I'm not allowed to say word one about it, and the required restraint was very painful. :-P

[trobadora]

Damn, another guessing game I missed! The second half of this month turned out so much busier than I expected, and I've barely read anything yet. Still planning to catch up, though!

And either way I'm chuffed to have been guessed for two different stories. *beams at the guessers* :D

Telling my tells

[iwantthatcoat]

Well, I did remember the double dashes and promptly removed them, but I do find it impossible to write without my beloved ellipse. Commas simply will not do. They do not provide adequate pause length in my head. Oh well.
On the plus side I am *thrilled * that my work was also attributed to authors I am very proud to have been mistaken for!
I will make it harder in December. That's a promise.

Re: Telling my tells

[nottoolateforthegame]

I'm picturing a round where everyone has gone out of their way to disguise their fic and used Brit-pickers and Betas to further confound the truth. LOL