A Holmesian Solstice

angelqueen04

camillo1978

clearinghouse

colebaltblue

discordantwords

dogandmonkeyshow

dryadinthegrove

gardnerhill

ireallyshouldbedrawing

iwantthatcoat

marta_bee

monkiainen

nairobiwonders

nottoolateforthegame

oldshrewsburyian

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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!

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sanguinity

Matching certainly goes more easily when we match people to themselves!

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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.

Edited Date: 2018-06-25 02:34 pm (UTC)

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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!

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Or maybe their perceptive twin lucidasanspatronymic?

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As chucking is the only thing Red Delicious apples are good for, I applaud this proposal. Without animus toward graycardinal, of course.

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Ah, but if I had written "Kitty Winter," wouldn't I have asked my beta to keep shtum till after reveals?

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Hmmm, I'm sure that you will next time, in any case ;)

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discordantwords

it remains the only story in this Holmestice round for which Chryse has left a comment!

Ah, you noticed that too! I had my suspicions about the authorship of "Kitty Winter," and once I saw Chryse's comment I felt pretty confident in my guess. :D

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Okay, you two, how about this: Chryse did not beta the work I created.

SO THERE.

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write_out

Only chiming in to say HARD SAME about Red Delicious apples.

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*gasp*

A turn-up for the books! I feel that a salutary 'Norbury' has been whispered in my ear, much obliged :)

I still think "Kitty Winter" is yours, though. We'll see on the 28th whether I am hoist by my own petard or not!

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iwantthatcoat

I love you all.
:)

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You do realize that saying it that way, as opposed to the conditional "would go more easily", strongly implies that you've actually matched at least one recipient to themself at some point in this or a prior round....

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sanguinity

Does it? Imagine that.

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What is this "enemy" business being bandied about all of a sudden? Surely the relationship in question is more akin to that of "friendly adversary" -- comparable to that of Holmes and Irene Adler as opposed to that of, say, Holmes and Milverton.

There's clearly a misunderstanding here. I was asked a direct question ("How do you like ['em] apples?"), to which I supplied an honest answer ("In deep dish pie, with ice cream.") while requesting an opinion on whether the asking of the question constituted an offer. That opinion was that no, it didn't ("This is not Faerie..."), thereby taking the matter of actual pie wholly off the table. And since there are no genuine enemies here, the question of chucking apples -- of whatever variety -- at an enemy surely does not arise.

Not that one could easily find a Red Delicious apple in Oregon nowadays, anyway; our growers have mostly moved on to more palatable hybrids. The most prominent supermarket varieties are probably Fuji and Gala, with a brisk trade in Honeycrisp at the higher end of the scale, and quite a few Granny Smiths in the mix (good for making applesauce).

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Note that there's no explicit denial of authorship, though. If there's an error in deduction, it's in assuming that Chryse was in fact the beta for "Kitty Winter", which does not wholly invalidate any of the other links in the chain.

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Hmmmmmmmm.

(Wait, there's an echo in here....)

#1 is practically a foregone conclusion.
#2 and #3 mirror one another.
(If #2 is true, #3 is a lie; if #2 is a lie, #3 is true.)
That being the case, there's not much else to be reasoned from these statements.

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But does the popcorn have anchovy butter?

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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....

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sanguinity

*mysterious smile*

Tell me, what convos would it explain?

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For one thing, it could put a new light on

colebaltblue's two truths and a lie, because that might make their #1 the lie, a possibility I had not seriously considered -- and which would make the triad a considerably more specific nudge-wink, rather than the very general bit of logic it is in either of the other two cases.

And it might also explain why

colebaltblue brought out the popcorn during my exchange with

scfrankles about "The Retired Novelist", since if you're the author that thread has both of us being hopelessly wrong....

Edited Date: 2018-06-26 08:43 pm (UTC)

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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.

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