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, our twentieth round -- especially given how tumultuous these last months have been. Being in this community with you is a joy and an honour.

Reveals and the Master List go up on June 20th. 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.

In the meanwhile, stay tuned: treats are coming up! 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 send your headers to holmesticemods@gmail.com.

If you'd like to guess who created what in this round, here's a list of all the contributors for the main gifts. (You'll have to put in some extra work to guess the treat-makers!) Go ahead and take a guess! It's all in good fun.



alexcat
apprenticeofdoyle
bakerstmel / Callie4180
cam_elot (used to be thefrenchweirdone)
discordantwords
dryadinthegrove
evilinsanemonkey
fleetsparrow
fridaythegowerstreetcat / gowerstreet
gardnerhill
graycardinal
iwantthatcoat
Keenir/Rodlox/Anthony
language_escapes
mafief
milverton
monkiainen
natrix_natrix
oldshrewsburyian
pipmer1
rachelindeed
saki101
sanguinity
sanspatronymic
scfrankles
simplyclockwork
smallhobbit
starfishstar
strampunch
tepidspongebath
trobadora
twicecurvedspine / eyes-on-stilts
urbanhymnal
write_out



Go forth and leave love for your fellow Holmestice authors, artists, podficcers, and vidders! See you again on the 20th, when we reveal who made what!

Comments

Spreadsheet of Doom: Part the First

[graycardinal]

Time being what it is, best not to put this off too late, and getting the first part out of the way should be relatively brief (especially since I get to piggyback to a significant extent on other people's detective work).

Multimedia

Vid: Futile Devices cam_elot

The Spreadsheet of Doom gives us very few offers for vids, and I agree with starfishstar that neither rachelindeed nor sanguinity are likely candidates for this particular vid. Unless a pinch-hitter picked this up (smallhobbit, perhaps?), cam_elot is the likeliest candidate.

Podfic: The Kincardine File evilinsanemonkey

I had been almost ready to go spelunking in my vault of Ancient Convention Filk Tapes to see if I could find a civilian recording of gardnerhill in performance (we established a round or two back that they and I crossed paths in livespace decades ago in a filk room at Baycon) when starfishstar reported a voice match in connection with their guess for this. I am going to trust that research, although I am still tempted to cross-check, because my first instinct on hearing the podfic was to consider gardnerhill.

Due credit to starfishstar, then -- and we'll see.

ART:
This Meeting of Like Minds penaltywaltz
Some Rest in the Country natrix_natrix
The Essential Layers in a Gentleman's Attire strampunch

On two of these I join the consensus in notable part because it *is* a consensus, and I have no good reason not to trust the collective judgment of the gallery on the matter.

On "Like Minds", I am an outlier. First of all, my sense of the numbers is that there are enough contributors this time out that there shouldn't have been a need for anyone to double-dip and create two main gifts. For that reason, I doubt that either iwantthatcoat or rachelindeed produced art this time around; there are better matches for both among the fic. And if we also eliminate the two other well-matched artists and the likely vidder from the mix, that leaves one obvious candidate for a Wimsey/Russell blending such as this.

More later....

Re: Spreadsheet of Doom: Part the First

[rachelindeed]

A point of order: Penaltywaltz isn't listed among the contributors for main gifts at the top of the Guessing Post. Presumably they were one of several participants this round who had to bow out.

Re: Spreadsheet of Doom: Part the First

[graycardinal]

Oy. I swear I went through that list three times to make sure I'd avoided that particular class of error, and one slipped through anyway. Clearly it's the universe's revenge for my pointing out a similar difficulty to someone else upstream.

Very well, then. ...Like Minds is not by penaltywaltz, but neither is it by any of the players I eliminated above. I am also doubtful about assigning it to either of the two individuals I can specifically identify as pinch hitters on the contributor list, because I think I'm going to need those for some of the other matches.

And I am even more doubtful that starfishstar is responsible for this artwork, even though the Supreme Commander of Guessing has suggested that it may be so. (On the one hand, scfrankles correctly notes that starfishstar must have fudged at least one guess on the list in order to make guesses about every entry. OTOH, if starfishstar were going to switch media in the first place, I'd predict a jump to podfic before one to art, and moreover, while casting Katharine Hepburn as Russell is absolutely a viable artistic choice, I don't see it as a choice starfishstar would make.)

[pores over Spreadsheet of Doom some more]

All right, I am officially stumped. Except possibly if ...Like Minds came from me sometime when my writing brain was out to lunch (don't ask). And that's wildly unlikely....

So I am going to do something unconventional. I am going to guess that ...Like Minds is by sanguinity, because now one of two things will happen. Either I will continue my streak of being totally wrong about what sanguinity has created (though at least I'm unlikely to have confused her with gardnerhill on this one), or -- if I'm very, very lucky -- it really will be sanguinity's work and I'll have guessed her correctly for once.

And either way, someone will get a good laugh out of the guess. :-)

Re: Spreadsheet of Doom: Part the First

[starfishstar]

Ooooooh, if you're willing to indulge me, I would LOVE to know why you thought "This Meeting of Like Minds" wasn't me, and why casting Katharine Hepburn as Russell seemed like a choice I wouldn't make.

(Or maybe you were just being nice to me, and letting me have my one shred of mystery in a guessing round!)

Either way, your guess didn't make me laugh – it made me squee in delight. So thank you!