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

[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]

Hmm. It looks to me as if that may also affect the Spreadsheet of Doom, which necessarily includes recipients as well as creators. Let me therefore clarify a point: the list as corrected includes only those who've contributed art/fic/podfic to the current round, and may therefore omit individuals who received a gift work from a pinch-hitter.

(Which is to say that at least one of my spreadsheet entries may have agreed with one of rachelindeed's invalidated guesses.)

[holmesticemods]

The corrected list is of contributors, yes, including pinch-hitters, yes, and is current through the two treats that went up today. (Note that the list won't be updated to include authorship of any further treats, should they come in, because that would be giving away Too Much Information.)

:: ...and may therefore omit individuals who received a gift work from a pinch-hitter. ::

No, it's the other way around: it omits people who dropped and were thus replaced by a pinch-hitter. People who received work from a pinch-hitter are generally still on the list. (Because generally speaking, those people all made something themselves.)

Does that clarify things any?

[graycardinal]

[rereads, rechecks lists]

Ah, I see. On one hand, I believe it answers the question I meant to ask; OTOH, I phrased that question badly. You're right; the story I was thinking of need not have been written by a pinch hitter, but it was written for a recipient who fell off the corrected list. True?

[rachelindeed]

Aha! Thank you very much for the corrections. The advantage of guessing early is that I have plenty of time to reconsider! :)

Yes, so that takes navaan off of my guess list. Fair enough, I really only made that guess because they were the only person - besides the gift's recipient trobadora - whose offers focused on Holmes/Moriarty. But there were plenty of people who offered Holmes/Other and it could be any one of them! I will leave it to my more experienced guessing peers to solve that mystery :)

But I'm glad to see dogandmonkeyshow back on the list, since I'd been planning to guess that "One tale in four books" was theirs :)

And I am now in a position to add that I believe sanguinity has also authored my wonderful 7PER fic, "Amanuensis." <3 <3 <3 <3

[colebaltblue]

graycardinal's and scfrankle's very clever methods of deduction aside, I do feel the need to point out that they can only figure on the likely creator of a particular work based on the evidence at hand. If a creator were to say, create for something they didn't sign up for presuming that the original match was for something that they did, then it sure would throw things off a bit on the guesses?

[rachelindeed]

VERY SNEAKY, COLEBALTBLUE.

You even broke SCFrankles' perfect batting average. Truly, you are the master of disguise!!