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

[iwantthatcoat]

We were debating this on Twitter. I know it included Elinor Grey and possibly Robert Perret and Brad Keefler (sorry, I am sure I am getting names wrong here) ? Someone else joined the convo and showed me the original manuscript for a few stories. I can’t remember which one. Perhaps Hound? It was in Doyle’s handwriting and had Holmes’ in script. I was rather shocked.

[starfishstar]

Neat! I'll have to look into the history of that more sometime. I wonder if it's another thing (like the Mr./Mr discussion above) where UK and US usage used to be more similar, and then diverged, and as Americans we assume that the current British usage must of course be the original one, and our usage the one that diverged, when often it's the other way around! (As with got/gotten. And oh, probably lots of other things I can't think of right now!)

[graycardinal]

That will have been Brad Keefauver, I expect; you've been keeping good company. (As I recall, all three of that trio - Elinor, Robert, & Brad - were at Left Coast Sherlock this past fall.)

[iwantthatcoat]

Yes indeed! Just Twitter follower chat— I can’t say I know them well—but I like to get into a good discussion there whenever possible. Came up around the time I submitted stuff for Doyle’s Rotary Coffin.