Winter 2020 Master List

[holmesticemods]

Sorted by category and fandom, all the amazing fanworks created by this round's participants, for your perusal and entertainment and with names attached! Now comments can be answered and works reposted all over the web, and pimping shall commence far and wide! If you haven't added your fanwork to the AO3 collection, and you want to, you can add it here: Holmestice Exchange - Winter 2020. If your work has been on AO3 all along and is in a fast-moving tag ("Sherlock (TV)" or "Sherlock Holmes/John Watson", for example), you might choose to update its publication date to today, so that your work has its turn at the top of the tag.

Please come back and join us for our next summer round! Sign-ups will open in March. You can follow us here or at holmestice (twitter) or holmestice (tumblr) for updates!

And now, without further ado, the Grand Reveal!

Art

ACD Canon

• Whispering soft nothings, receiving hard somethings in exchange. by strampunch for tepidspongebath (Gen, G)

Granada

• Soft moments by yakichoufd for strampunch (Holmes/Watson, G)


• Someone Old, Someone New, Someone Borrowed and Someone Violet by fredthedinosaur for gardnerhill (Morstan/Hunter, Holmes/Watson, G)

Ritchie Films / ACD Canon / Elementary

• Merry Holmestice!!! by cruria for navaan (varies, G)

Enola

• With Times A-Changin' by Biscia (two-nipples-maybe-more) for language_escapes (Enola/Cecily, G)

BBC Sherlock

• Art For "So Many Ways To Tell Me You Care" and "This Is A Terrible Idea" by Ragna/@penaltywaltz for galadriel1010 (Mycroft/Lestrade, G)

Fiction

ACD Canon

• The Mystery of the Missing Changeling by inamac for pipmer1 (None, G)


• The Adventure of Sir Peacock's Household by tinawiththeglasses for cruria (Holmes/Watson, T)


• One Way Journey by monkiainen for fleetsparrow (Holmes/Watson, T)


• The Case of the Queer Booksellers by fleetsparrow for tinawiththeglasses (Holmes/Watson, T)


• Fairy Lights by VTsuion for rachelindeed (Holmes/Watson, G)


• The Defence of Progress by fridaythegowerstreetcat for a_different_equation (Holmes/Watson, G)


• Charlotte Sometimes by vulgarweed for strampunch (Holmes/Watson, E)


• Pearls Beyond Price by vulgarweed for happyeverafter72 (Holmes/Watson/Morstan, E)


• The Reichenbach Truce by trobadora for fridaythegowerstreetcat (Holmes/Moriarty, T)

BBC Sherlock

• Fraternity by galadriel1010 for pagimag (Gen, G)


• In Out of the Rain by Ranowa for noob (Gen, T)


• Fever Dream by book7brokemybrain for Ranowa (Gen, T)


• Making History by pipmer1 for write_out (Gen, T)


• Auxin by dryadinthegrove for opaljade (Gen, G)


• EXECUTE by discordantwords for write_out (Holmes/Watson, T)


• The Time Cat by redpenrevolution for merinda / merindab (Holmes/Watson, T)


• Never Trust to General Impressions by write_out for dryadinthegrove (Holmes/Watson, T)


• unlikely by simplyclockwork for redpenrevolution (Holmes/Watson, M)


• The Adventure of the Cardboard Hoax by pagimag for alexcat (Holmes/Watson, M)


• Magical Rain by noob for simplyclockwork (None, G)


• Light a Match (Watch it Burn) by mysterydeer for trobadora (Holmes/Moriarty, T)


• A Study in Scheming by starfishstar for vulgarweed (Morstan/Adler, T)


• How Scotland Yard Seduced the British Government by pipmer1 for monkiainen (Mycroft/Lestrade, T)


• Contended by merinda / merindab for mysterydeer (Mycroft/Lestrade, G)

BBC Sherlock/Inspector Lewis/Midsomer Murders

• London, Oxford, Causton by penaltywaltz for galadriel1010 (Gen, T)

BBC Sherlock/Alexis Hall

• The Stress of Her Regard by vulgarweed for iwantthatcoat (Gen, T)

Elementary

• The Case of the Mauled Ringmaster by alexcat for phoenixfalls (Holmes/Watson, T)

A Study in Emerald

• The Hunting Dogs by tepidspongebath for VTsuion (Holmes/Watson, T)

Enola Holmes

• Her Left Hand Woman by navaan for graycardinal (Enola/Cecily, G)


• The Haunting of Garton Hall by colebaltblue for Ragna/@penaltywaltz (Gen, T)


• Amongst Friends by sanguinity for Biscia (two-nipples-maybe-more) (Gen, G)

The Case of Death and Honey

• The Resurrection of the Beekeeper and his Assistant by a_different_equation for colebaltblue (Holmes/Watson, T)

Granada

• Treasure for the Senses by happyeverafter72 for fredthedinosaur (Holmes/Watson, T)

Ritchie Films

• Strait-Laced by phoenixfalls for yakichoufd (Holmes/Watson, E)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

• The Greater Game by graycardinal for inamac (Gen, G)

Without a Clue

• Actually, It’s Pronounced ‘ha-Meesh’ by iwantthatcoat for sanspatronymic (Gen, T)


• Peas in a Pod by gardnerhill for iwantthatcoat (Gen, T)

Podfic

ACD Canon

• Stormy Petrels by starfishstar for rachelindeed (Holmes/Watson, G)

My Dearly Beloved Detective

• The Glorious Disguise by language_escapes for starfishstar (Holmes/Watson, G)

Vids

Granada

• beyond your peripheral vision by rachelindeed for sanguinity (Gen, T)

Many thanks to everyone who participated! If you see any mistakes or omissions in the master list, please email the mods and we'll get it fixed up ASAP.

We'll be editing the posts now to put all the author/artist and beta information in there as well, but it's going to take some time. Please have a little patience; we'll get there.

Comments

[write_out]

I was wrong, wrong, wrong with all of my guesses but one (I knew Discordantwords wrote my gift)!

Thanks again to everyone, especially our fantastic mods, for another great round! Now to catch up on all the works!

[discordantwords]

You figured me out! I will have to be sneakier next time! :D

[iwantthatcoat]

Ugh. This year with my all-too-fast guessing (reading the response to me in comments but not going back and reading the other ones, writing quick notes that could apply to multiple stories, etc...) all made my track record abysmal this round.
Oh well. Crazy time of year. Crazier year.
But some truly remarkable stories. Thank you all!

[starfishstar]

Not abysmal! You contributed a whole bunch to the guessing. (Not least in continuing to throw in possible fakeouts in all directions.) I'm glad you're finally going to have a break from your crazy time of year (I think you said in another post?). It's always a joy to guess with you!

[write_out]

Also, next time I swear I will not use a quote of any kind or thank my beta, just to make it harder!!


And yes, starfishstar, I did forget my own rule and accidentally kudos'd 'Fraternity'- oops! :)

[starfishstar]

:D By the end, I figured you must have just forgotten/not been thinking about the fact that your offer of "non-romantic relationships/friendships: anyone in canon" amounted to an offer of gen, and thus was a potential match for a BBC genfic. But you had me spinning for a while! (It happens to all of us – I was so careful not to leave kudos on anything I thought I could even potentially be guessed for, but in the end I kudosed at least one fic that graycardinal apparently thought I was a candidate for. It's always something!) ;-)

[rachelindeed]

Starfishstar, I would never have guessed you for the Irene/Mary fic, even though I correctly followed all the clues up to that point: I knew you created a BBC fanwork with a non-Johnlock pairing this round! But, alas, I think I must have been projecting my own disinclination to deal with the later seasons of the show onto you, and thus missed an obvious fit for my own deductions :) Ah, Norbury indeed! Well played!

[starfishstar]

Rachelindeed!!!! Oh my gosh, I was SO happy about your guess, and SO enjoyed following your thought process! Is it weird to thank someone for their guess...? Anyway, thank you. :-)

Also, it makes me so happy that everyone here seems to think of me as such a More Holmes person to the point that apparently it's almost inconceivable I would write BBC! And what's more, apparently that's extended to you categorizing me as a yes ACD, no BBC person – when I've never in my life written ACD (rightly or wrongly, I've never trusted myself to get the period details right) ...but do have a slate of BBC fics behind me. Basically: thank you for thinking of me as an ACD person, even though I'm totally not. :-)

(Way more backstory than you want or need, but I started in Holmesian fandom as a BBC-only person, I joined Holmestice as a BBC-only person, I wrote only BBC in my first couple of Holmestices... No one seems to remember me from those early rounds, but that's unsurprising because I was really shy at the start, and didn't participate in the guessing or I think really even interact with anyone at all. But I was 100% BBC for a couple years, until I finally took the plunge and dared to let Sang match me on something obscure. It was a little scary that first time! I used to be such a cautious writer. For a long time, the ONLY fic I wrote was canon-compliant Harry Potter fic – nothing else, no AUs, certainly no obscure fandoms. Even first branching out into BBC Sherlock (about as un-obscure as one can get) felt like a wild leap.) ;-)

Anyway, so having BBC in my sign-up wasn't even devious... I think I've had BBC in my sign-up every single time. It's just that nowadays I also offer lots of obscure things (and am excited about lots of obscure things) and so of course Sang matches on that. I'm pretty sure I was matched this round on the Abdul-Jabaar and Waterhouse series (a properly rare 'verse), but I just didn't have any inspiration on it. And I was intrigued by that Irene/Mary prompt. (Not something I'd have come up with on my own, by why not!) I almost felt like I was letting Sang down by *not* writing More Holmes; but I consoled myself with the thought that maybe she'd done that part of the matching deliberately, too – putting me with someone who requested BBC, but a rarepair.

Which is all to say, your chain of reasoning was 100% solid! I *do* advocate for rarepairs, I *do* try to write the more obscure thing when possible (even when I was in Holmestice as a BBC-only writer, I would challenge myself to write something that was new to me, if that was what would best match the recipient's request. e.g. a Sherlock/Lestrade fic, which is also something I'd never have come up with on my own, but really enjoyed). And, like you, I detest the later seasons of the show... though I will occasionally venture into that territory if it's to read/write a fix-it. (As soon as I thought about the possibility of the Irene/Mary pairing, it inevitably became a fix-it: Mary doesn't die, Irene isn't outsmarted by Sherlock in sexist Moffat fashion, in fact come to think of it *nobody* has to die, and so on.)

The one thing I thought might give me away entirely is the fact that I've requested and promoted femslash in previous Holmestices... Which itself is very rare in Holmestice. So I thought that if someone got as far as thinking I might have written BBC rather than More Holmes, they would surely think: "femslash? but it's BBC? well, it surely can't be sanguinity – it must be starfishstar!" I was so fiendishly delighted that no one made that leap.

Argh, sorry for writing a whole essay at you. But I've had SO MANY THOUGHTS that I've had to keep a secret all this time. :D

ANYWAY. tl;dr I'm both delighted to have gone unguessed this round (a long-held goal!!) and also delighted that you had such a lovely and accurate string of deductions about me. It's fun to be an enigma and equally it's lovely to be known. <3

[sanguinity]

:: It's fun to be an enigma and equally it's lovely to be known. <3 ::

This, if you'll let me hijack the thread. For as much profanity as I dropped on your collective heads this weekend when the three of you teamed up to correctly peg me to my offering, it was still lovely to see rachelindeed's detailed reasoning about how those other two stories were extremely unlikely to be me, based on her very granualar (and quite correct!) knowledge of my likes and dislikes. It is both flattering and charming to see y'all put that much effort into ferreting me out. :-)

[graycardinal]

Let me echo what sanguinity just said above. I have just as much fun flying under the guessing radar (which I've managed once or twice) as I do when I write one of these genuinely rare 'verses where I'm often the only plausible guess-ee in the whole round. I may then ramble through the guessing post attempting (usually with very limited success) to deviously deflect suspicion, but what I may lack in sanguinity -like sneakiness I make up for by genuinely having fun playing into the comic relief.

And then once in a great while, the sneakiness actually works, as when I tried to convince iwantthatcoat that sanguinity was trying to impersonate me in a comment thread on AO3...and instead convinced them that I was responsible for that thread myself! I totally didn't expect that result, but I smiled a lot when I read 'coat's comment....

[iwantthatcoat]

I knew very well who Sanguinity was trying to impersonate ;) , so it led me to consider you wanting people to think she was impersonating you for other reasons. It made for some fun guessing!
I do think next time I will try a legit spreadsheet of... something

[vulgarweed]

If you were matched to me by my Abdul-Jabbar/Waterhouse request, I absolve you of not writing that on grounds of rarity! Irene/Mary is a VERY rare pair in BBC - they never even met on the show - so your rarepair credentials are still impeccable. Let's keep on promoting rare femslash, I am always down for that. :)

[starfishstar]

It's true, Irene/Mary is a very rare pair! I liked that about it a lot. :-) (The other BBC femslash I've written is about Anthea (or, "Anthea"), so I am definitely down with obscurity.) Rarepairs FTW!

[rachelindeed]

Thanks so much to the mods and all the participants for this delightful Holmestice round! I have so much to catch up on, but the fest has -- as ever -- been a bright spot to look forward to and enjoy!

[starfishstar]

Noooooo! vulgarweed was in fact one of my top three suspects for the Shaharazad Haas fic, but I thought it was fairly unlikely they'd have written *both* of the late-posting treats. That'll show me for assuming. :D

But otherwise: YES!!!!!!

More soon. :-)

[vulgarweed]

I was a busy little bee! (But in too much of a hurry to try to change up any formatting tics!)

Thank you SO MUCH for my amazing Mary/Irene story, and I'm so sorry I didn't guess you!

[starfishstar]

You really were! I'm so impressed – especially because all three fics were excellent. (Particularly the Alexis Hall one!) I haven't had time to leave comments on the treats yet, because everything was such a rush right at the end there, but I'll be back around.

And you are so welcome! It was great fun to write for you. No apologies needed in the least – I'm thrilled I managed to sneak by entirely unguessed this time. It's the first time I've pulled it off!!

[iwantthatcoat]

I kept thinking, where’s Starfishstar in all this? But then the possibility of art came up.
Outstanding story!

[starfishstar]

I know, I wasn't even expecting to be a main contender for BBC art, but I ended up quite glad that it showed up in the mix to throw people off. :-)

And thank you!!

[(Anonymous)]

I believe it was Rachelindeed who pondered the morality of copying a writing style without permission. Here’s how it went down:
I get caught by punctuation far too frequently. I genuinely did not realize what I was doing specifically until I flat out asked SCFrankles, who kindly answered in a very clear way. I fixed it. Mostly. But I knew I still had my share of Shatner pauses. Oddly enough, this comes from my tendency to avoid commas because GED tests don’t like them. My students would be putting them in for natural pauses and getting the answer wrong. I was also never taught proper use of dashes and ellipses. Blame testing out of certain English classes and never having a proper grammar class while moving through a few different high schools.
So. I have tells and I know it. I asked Sanguinity for help. So that theoretical person who would have had to work hard to make me sound a little less...me? That was Sang. Bless you, Sang. That was hard work. I spent more time editing in commas and taking out ellipses than writing the thing. Three dot ellipses, but still ellipses.
Then Sag asked if I would mind her trying to sound more like me. I relished the thought that my grammatical issues could have a positive use. I said absolutely and gave her permission to fix it later so it wouldn’t be wring for all eternity. Just long enough to possibly fool someone. When I saw the two dotted ellipsis, I thought even I wouldn’t be quite that random about it. After all, the four dots came from a writing partner of mine who believed an extra dot was for trailing off without finishing the thought whereas three was for normal pauses. I agree I have no clue whatsoever about spacing them amongst other words, but I do *now*, thanks to Sanguinity.
Anyway, that was consensual theft. Even if it fooled precisely no one in the long run. :)

[iwantthatcoat]

Also, some day I will make sure I am logged in before I post. Today is not that day. And neither was yesterday.

[sanguinity]

I could have sworn I saw a two-period ellipsis somewhere when I was looking at reference fics! But I prolly did lay it on a bit thick.

Thank you for letting me try to swap with you, Coat! And it was a pleasure to beta your work. As I said at the time, that's a damn fine story you wrote.

[iwantthatcoat]

Thank you!
Well, I’m sure I did at some point. And it’s only too thick post SCFrankles’ help. I absolutely did that sort of thing all the time. Sadly I focused on punctuation and missed Bill Murray. Though I did try to give it a little spin. Which, of course, only made it worse.

[starfishstar]

Oh sheesh, that is such a sweet story! I love that you two had such a symbiotic creation process this round. That's a total delight to even think about.

And between the two of you, you led us all on quite a merry chase! On two different fronts, in fact. Impressive, truly.

[graycardinal]

And as usual, my best prediction was that sanguinity would get to spend a lot of the past week laughing. (Sooo close on some of those, darnit!)

[sanguinity]

Even while trying to compensate for your usual habit of confusing me with gardnerhill, you still confused me with gardnerhill. That did amuse me, yes. :-D


I had a delightful time, thank you everyone!

[tepidspongebath]

I was wondering if I'd be able to sneak past undetected this round, but starfishstar caught me. ^_^


This was a huge amount of fun, and I'm looking forward to getting to the rest of the entries. Thank you again to the fantastic mods!

[inamac]

Thank you for all your hard work (especially dealing with my panic after breaking my arm after I'd just signed up!) and to everyone else who contributed. I am still catching up with reading and commenting. It was great to return after my 10 year hiatus!

[a_different_equation]

Thank you mods for hosting another round. This year has been rough, so your gift exchange was a true light at the end of 2020 (for me). It never stops to amaze me how many Sherlock Holmes incarnations there are, and what so many people create out of it, and all for free, fun, and friends. Lastly, even I never participate in the guessing game, it is such a pleasure to see the deductions going. Well done!

Happy holidays to everyone, stay safe & healthy!

[happyeverafter72]

I didn't guess anything, but I'm thrilled with my gift and I've been exploring the writer's other works.
starfishstar guessed me quite correctly!

[(Anonymous)]

Psst mods the link to The Mystery of the Missing Changeling is broken. Thank you for all that you do!