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 December 21st. 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 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.


796116311389 / redpenrevolution
a_different_equation
alexcat
belle82devart
colebaltblue
disheveledcurls
dogandmonkeyshow
dovahlock221
dryadinthegrove
elwinglyre
fridaythegowerstreetcat
gardnerhill
graycardinal
hp_swl_cumbercookie
ireallyshouldbedrawing
iwantthatcoat
keenir
bererjs
lamplighter1890
language_escapes
luthienberen
merindab
mightymads
milverton
monkiainen
nottoolateforthegame
orchid314
pagimag
penaltywaltz
phoenixfalls
pipmer1
rachelindeed
sanguinity
sanspatronymic
scfrankles
shinychimera
smallhobbit
starfishstar
tassynicole
tei
tripleransom
trobadora
venusinthenight
whoufflelover24
write_out


Go forth and leave love for your fellow Holmestice authors, artists, and vidders, and keep an eye out for the upcoming treats. See you again on the 21st, when we reveal who made what!

Comments

[phoenixfalls]

Okay, I'm game to try my hand at a few guesses this year. Starting with Elementary, because it's the fandom I know best:

Scenes From Two Lives, Converged - I'm guessing venusinthenight. Joanbell gen seems very much their style.

Got Milk? - Well, penaltywaltz offered Elementary as a source and fic & graphics as a fanwork type, so I'll guess this is their work!

Down on Mainstreet - Something about this maybe strikes me as Keenir's work? I can't articulate why, but that's my guess.

Some Unholy War - Perhaps this is by disheveledcurls? This guess is based purely on their offer of Elementary and a canon-divergent AU; the other person who offered that (that I spotted) is Keenir, who the fic is for, so it obviously isn't by them. :)

Hollow Moon (make a deal with the bad wolf) - No one offered Joan/Morland, that I can see at least; I've got no guesses here!

And then some more!Holmes guesses:

TWO 221b Baker Towers fics! But I only spotted one offer of the 'verse. So either tei wrote in the 'verse for both their assignment and picked up a pinch hit in it, or somebody was writing outside their offers. I'm fairly sure at least one of them is indeed by tei, because I can't imagine the mods NOT talking the opportunity to finally match on 221b Baker Towers 'verse. The styles feel just different enough that I'm going to guess they're not both by tei. So I'm going to allow myself to be convinced by rachelindeed's reasoning and guess the following:

Do You Observe? - starfishstar

Deduction, Translation, and Other Domestic Arts - tei

Though I would not be surprised if one of these fics is by gardnerhill, given their propensity for writing in obscure Holmesian fandoms.

(I had thought to guess language_escapes for Do You Observe?, but they didn't offer Baker Towers. Of course, I didn't spot any of their offers in the final list of works, so I'm pretty sure they wrote something not on their offers list. BUT they usually redact their beta during Holmestice, and the writer of Do You Observe? thanked a beta publicly, so I crossed language_escapes off of this guess.)

For My Dearly Beloved Detective I guess:

The Glorious Disguise - I'm nearly positive this is by starfishstar. The author's note alone seems very much in their voice, from what I've seen here on the comm; and I find sanguinity's rationale convincing as well. (Even though this means I'm guessing they wrote for sanguinity twice. Hey, I've gotta be right on at least one of these, right?)

rewrite the future/start from scratch - Maybe this is what language_escapes ended up writing? Though it doesn't seem in their usual style. But their offers were full of female versions of Holmes/Watson, so maybe?

And for my final guess, I will eat my hat* if the fic written for me, The Next World, is not by sanguinity. Sanguinity (1) introduced me to 1994 Baker Street/Sherlock Holmes Returns, as our resident more!Holmes pusher (going so far as to provide me the YouTube link!); (2) tailored the fic so precisely to my likes that I can't imagine anyone I had not discussed the movie with being able to do the same; and (3) is the only person who offered the movie anyway. :)

*I do not actually own any hats, this is an empty threat/promise.

[iwantthatcoat]

I have lots of extra hats for eating, shoudl you need one.
I don’t think you will. That’s pretty sound logic

[phoenixfalls]

How very generous! And hopefully entirely unnecessary, because if I am wrong, Sang is totally going to make me pay up. /hides under bed