Summer 2021 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 this round. Being in this community with you is a joy and an honour.

Reveals and the Master List go up on June 21st. Until then, please enjoy and comment on all the lovely fanworks. (If you haven't thanked your creator for your own gift yet, please do!) 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 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.


17pansies
alisha1221
arwamachine
BookGirlFan
c.art / comicArtistA
commoncollective
deelaundry / dee_laundry
discordantwords
eliza_underscore / marveling_under_an_open_sky
firecat
fleetsparrow
fridaythegowerstreetcat / gowerstreet
ghostbees / vernets
graycardinal / gray_cardinal
happyeverafter72
helloliriels
iwantthatcoat
language_escapes
marta-bee
merinda / Janto321
milverton / algy / AlgySwinburne
monkiainen
natrix_natrix / two_nipples_maybe_more / Biscia
Noob / 0archangel0
nottoolateforthegame
ohlooktheresabee
oldshrewsburyian
oraorahime
papysanzo
pipmer1 / pipmer
queenoferebor
rachelindeed / educatedinyellow
Rocío / disheveledcurls
saki101
sanguinity
sanspatronymic / sans_patronymic
senmut / Merfilly
simplyclockwork
strampunch / Dapperpunch
tepidspongebath
thedoubtfulguest / violet_strange
trobadora
urbanhymnal
vulgarweed
write_out / thetimemoves
yuliares


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

Comments

[rachelindeed]

Okay, guys, apparently the absence of grammar-clue guessers this round has created a vacuum into which I am being resentfully drawn...I didn't mean to do this! I just noticed that "BOX ONE" was an all-caps title and decided to very quickly skim through the participating authors' AO3 profiles to see if there was someone who always wrote their titles in all-caps because that would have been an easy signpost (for the record, none of the participating authors I could find on AO3 do regularly use all-caps titles, so that's a bust). But, while skimming past people's AO3 pages, I UNWILLINGLY noticed a few tics that scfrankles and starfishstar have apparently conditioned me to double-take over, and so I regret to inform you that I have a few grammar-and-tag-based Rational guesses:

Happyeverafter72 has written Coules fic before, uses the tag "Cuddling & Snuggling" for many of their works, and deploys a very distinctive two-line run of short dashes to indicate scene breaks, so I'd say "The Case of the Missing Marrow" belongs to them :)

Disheveledcurls tends to write Elementary fic titles all in lowercase and specifies where the fic falls within the show's canon timeline in between [brackets] in their summaries. Therefore "all the way" can be traced to their doorstep!

Yuliares uses an html quote indentation in all their summaries. "Weathered til Content," j'accuse!

*collapses onto my fainting couch, urging the disgruntled grammatical spirit of absent detectives to move along to someone else in this seance*

[pipmer1]

You're having fun and you know it!

[saki101]

Oh, this is brilliant!!

[starfishstar]

Oh no! The Muse of Formatting has descended upon you! I am delighted, because this is objectively delightful, but for your sake I hope the disgruntled spirit does eventually move along to bother someone else. :-)

[yuliares]

You 100% called me - I should have realized that fans of the greatest detective would be doing some top-tier investigative work!