Oh, great heavens! Did Terri Samée sing her famous “Why Won't You Play At Chequers with Me”? Meg and Mark L! I’ve only just got it! ^_____^ (And here’s me berating sanguinity for not understanding puns ^^”)
I must know what gave me away this time!!!
To be honest, it wasn’t the formatting. (I suppose there is the idiosyncratic use of 5 dots in two ellipses to suggest a longer pause than usual but while that’s a nod towards you, it doesn’t definitely indicate the fic is yours.) It was several things all added together.
The writing of ‘The Empty Audience’ was particularly good, the writer had to be a More!Holmes writer that was willing to try new ‘verses as well as the ones they’d offered, and they had to be a More!Holmes writer that was comfortable with writing an explicit (albeit humorous and, paradoxically, partially veiled) sex scene. That rapidly narrowed down possibilities, and I had some of those writers assigned elsewhere.
And the fic seemed to have echoes of ‘The Police of Penzance.’ You were simply the most likely writer. And though in general I would never have guessed you weren’t a Briton (writing in a non-native version of English is tricky and I think ‘traveling’ is your only slip. And I didn’t even notice it until starfishstar pointed it out), there was one bit that jumped out at me and seemed to indicate that you weren’t British. I don’t know if I’m misunderstanding but at one point Watson says: And here, dear reader, is where I shall draw a veil over the scene, before we lose our BBC2 access. I assume he means, ‘or we will be taken off the air.’ But Watson thinks they are in a radio play and BBC2 is a TV station. It seemed an odd slip for a Briton to make. (I apologise if I’m not interpreting this part correctly.) So that did seem to allow the possibility that the fic could be yours.
And I do like your Sussex icon - it was a really lovely touch ^___^
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Date: 2018-12-22 09:36 pm (UTC)I must know what gave me away this time!!!
To be honest, it wasn’t the formatting. (I suppose there is the idiosyncratic use of 5 dots in two ellipses to suggest a longer pause than usual but while that’s a nod towards you, it doesn’t definitely indicate the fic is yours.) It was several things all added together.
The writing of ‘The Empty Audience’ was particularly good, the writer had to be a More!Holmes writer that was willing to try new ‘verses as well as the ones they’d offered, and they had to be a More!Holmes writer that was comfortable with writing an explicit (albeit humorous and, paradoxically, partially veiled) sex scene. That rapidly narrowed down possibilities, and I had some of those writers assigned elsewhere.
And the fic seemed to have echoes of ‘The Police of Penzance.’ You were simply the most likely writer. And though in general I would never have guessed you weren’t a Briton (writing in a non-native version of English is tricky and I think ‘traveling’ is your only slip. And I didn’t even notice it until starfishstar pointed it out), there was one bit that jumped out at me and seemed to indicate that you weren’t British. I don’t know if I’m misunderstanding but at one point Watson says: And here, dear reader, is where I shall draw a veil over the scene, before we lose our BBC2 access. I assume he means, ‘or we will be taken off the air.’ But Watson thinks they are in a radio play and BBC2 is a TV station. It seemed an odd slip for a Briton to make. (I apologise if I’m not interpreting this part correctly.) So that did seem to allow the possibility that the fic could be yours.
And I do like your Sussex icon - it was a really lovely touch ^___^