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

Re: starfishstar's alarmingly large pile of guesses, pt. 2

[rachelindeed]

I'm still catching up on the BBC fic, but I will disagree with you on write_out as the author of "hands full of matter." I think she's highly unlikely to have written a 20K entry.

I was torn between "Doggone Luck" and "Feel My Heart Banging Like a Gun" for her, but I think your guess of BakerStMel for "Feel My Heart" is a good one. Also, write_out is a huge X-Files fan, so much so that I regarded the author's note on "Doggone Luck" with suspicion -- would she draw attention to that connection so readily? But sometimes the simplest explanations are the best. Take into account as well her fondness for Donovan, who gets a nice shout-out in the story, and I'd say we have enough evidence to convict.

Doggone Luck = write_out

Re: starfishstar's alarmingly large pile of guesses, pt. 2

[rachelindeed]

*sighs at self* Hmmm, I am already losing confidence in this guess. Two of my distinguished guessing colleagues have suggested tepidspongebath for "Doggone Luck," and although I'm not familiar enough with their work to feel very confident in recognizing it, the pattern of multiple short chapters does seem to fit their style more than write_out's. And apparently they are an X-Files fan, too! Our BBC enclave is rife with them, it seems, so there goes one of my clues!

So I guess I am pushed back to "Feel My Heart Banging Like a Gun" for write_out. There are some points to argue for it -- it begins with a music quote (a classic write_out move!), Sally plays a competent guest role, and it's unabashedly a Johnlock romance. I have absolutely no idea where that leaves Callie4180/BakerStMel, but here we are.

Feel My Heart Banging Like a Gun = write_out, until I talk myself out of it again!

Re: starfishstar's alarmingly large pile of guesses, pt. 2

[starfishstar]

Hmmm, I do think it's worth noting that the other person who guessed tepidspongebath for "Doggone Luck" is discordantwords...but discordantwords may have an ulterior motive here. Because discordantwords also put write_out for "Forever Turning Corners." Which I think discordantwords wrote! So, possibility that discordantwords assigned tepidspongebath to "Doggone Luck" only because they needed to shuffle write_out over to cover their own tracks on "Forever Turning Corners"??

I'm not sure if that helps or harms my guesses, but it might help yours. :-)

Re: starfishstar's alarmingly large pile of guesses, pt. 2

[rachelindeed]

Oh yes, I agree that discordantwords borrowed write_out as an alibi to cover her own work :) But I extend the benefit of the doubt and assume she only fielded one disingenuous guess and was serious about the others!

Re: starfishstar's alarmingly large pile of guesses, pt. 2

[starfishstar]

You're absolutely right that write_out isn't a good guess for "hands full of matter"! From what I can see, write_out hasn't written anything explicit before, nor anything nearly this long. I was just stuck at a point where there were several M or E rated BBC fics, and decidedly not enough writers who seemed likely to have written them, and this seemed like the closest I could get to making everything line up. (But *really* what that probably means is that I'd already matched things wrongly somewhere else. This is why I rarely even try to guess the BBC fics...too many of them, and too little evidence to work with!)

...I'm going to have a bit of a ponder about whether I want to shuffle my BBC guesses around at all, now that I at least have everything laid out clearly & maybe it will be easier to see if some things might do better somewhere other than where they are now. :-)

Re: starfishstar's alarmingly large pile of guesses, pt. 2

[write_out]

This conversation has been quite fascinating to follow! :)