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 works elsewhere on the Internet until reveals go up in the community. You may of course reply to comments on AO3, which preserves your anonymity.

For anyone thinking of making a treat, we will accept treats right through until reveals, so if there's a prompt that inspires you, please have at it! Just use the regular submission guidelines and notify us at holmesticemods@gmail.com.

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



a_candle_for_sherlock
a_different_equation
alexcat
amindamazed
armchair_elvis
colebaltblue
Dovahlock221
dryadinthegrove
fridaythegowerstreetcat
gardnerhill
graycardinal
ireallyshouldbedrawing
iwantthatcoat
Keenir
luthienberen
Lyricoloratura
mercuryandmoonlight
mightymads
monkiainen
nahirholmes
natrix_natrix
Nobody / 0archangel0
nottoolateforthegame
oldshrewsburyian
penaltywaltz
rachelindeed
redpenrevolution
Reveling_in_mayhem
Robert / writemore
sanguinity
sanspatronymic
scfrankles
strampunch
tgarnsl
thefrenchweirdone
thesadchicken
trobadora
VTsuion
write_out



Go forth and leave love for your fellow Holmestice authors, artists, and vidders! See you again on the 21st, when we reveal who made what!

Comments

[scfrankles]

Still haven’t caught up on reading and commenting but one last go before the reveal:

A Bonny Thing: It says on AO3 that this was inspired by “I Am the Girl for Her” by sans_patronymic. So my initial reaction was that this fic was by anyone but sans_patronymic. But thinking about it… I don’t think there’s any technical reason to stop someone from linking one of their creations to another of their creations - the “inspired by” link is simply a hyperlink that AO3 formats for you. And it’s an unusual choice perhaps - in a gift exchange, writing a fic for someone that’s been inspired by a fic by a third party? I think the more straightforward answer is that this is another fic by sanspatronymic - they had to acknowledge their previous fic but they couldn’t put it into a series yet without immediately giving away their identity.

It's always Christmas in your arms: I’ve been doing a little sleuthing and I think this is by redpenrevolution / 796116311389. Using a sequence of lines with the same beginning (No one else got to…), almost like a poem, is very distinctive and I think I found another couple of sequences like that in another of their fics.

The Werewolves of the Baskervilles: That is a heckload of ellipses - not all of which keep to that stuffy and boring old convention of containing only three full stops. I think this fic might be by iwantthatcoat.

The Adventure of the Mazarine Steen: This is a pretty obscure ‘verse. It’s not really her style but could this possibly be by the queen of versatility, gardnerhill...? Maybe I've got some things confused.

And finally, for my biannual wild stab at guessing colebaltblue’s creation - I’m going with Many ways to meet a man.


Also, the question none of us has addressed yet - 40 creations and 39 creators: who was the internal pinch-hitter?

[sanspatronymic]

[luthienberen]

Yay! Another vote for iwantthatcoat for The Werewolves of the Baskervilles.

[iwantthatcoat]

You got me. Glad you enjoyed it :)

[luthienberen]

I'm surprised to have gotten it right! Thank you for my wonderful gift. I love The Werewolves of the Baskervilles :=)

[iwantthatcoat]

One of these days I will write a story without any ellipses. Sadly, I am far too busy with training for a new job right barely got it done in time as is. I have no other way of conveying a delay in speech or trailing off which feels right to me. So... ;)

[scfrankles]

Very witty ^_____^

Best wishes for the new job!

[sanguinity]

If you ever decide to attempt a low-to-no ellipsis story in an effort to shake scfrankles, come talk to me -- I'd be happy to help you anonymise the remainder of your punctuation. ;-)

[iwantthatcoat]

Thanks!
I had every intention of asking my beta for help with that, but we were both consumed by Real Life (gasp!). I did make an effort to have my comments sound less like me. And that did seem to work. It’s interesting what graycardinal said about character studies, since so much of my early stuff felt like that to me and I was always feeling as if it was bordering on plotless. I think my Holmestice work is rather distinct from the rest of it. This is where I have my fun with new universes, true enough.