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]

Alright, friends, I'm back one more time to throw a few more ideas at the wall. Buckle up!

- Firstly, I will officially guess Gray Cardinal for "BOX ONE" though I'm honestly still quite unsure about that! Sang, Lang, AND tepidspongebath are also all VERY plausible contenders for this one. But the story structure reminds me of Cardinal's epistolary Without A Clue fic from several rounds back, plus I very much like to think that this guessing post would not be complete without Gray Cardinal trying to pass his work off as Sang's at least once, as time-honored tradition dictates :)

- Based on their interest in aroace!Holmes, I think BookGirlFan probably wrote the lovely fics "Partnerships" and "What It Is To Be Lonely"

- I agree with Gray Cardinal in electing Iwantthatcoat as the author of the wonderful "The Madness of Colonel Warburton: An Elementals Story." It's still the ellipses, iwantthatcoat -- I'm sorry! But maybe I'm wrong, in which case I hope you have a good laugh over this :)

- I will vote on language_escapes as the author of "Her Own Circle." It's the Doyle entry least focused on Holmes and Watson (though BOX ONE comes in a close second) and the marvelous detail of the handwritten signature at the end of the story reminds me of her Post-It fic from Elementary years ago :)

- I'll elect Merida/Janto321 as the author of "The First Dance." It fits their sign up, and they have a cute tendency to leave off the final punctuation in their summaries sometimes, as they did in this case :)

- I'll guess Nottoolateforthegame as the author of "Observations of Grief," purely because they love protective big brother Mycroft and there wasn't a whole lot of Mycroft in this round.

- I'll guess urbanhymnal for "Nowhere Else But Here" based purely on their love of hurt/comfort!

- Okay, it feels cowardly not to register a guess for Sanguinity, even though I really have no confidence at all that I recognized her work this time around. There just aren't very many fics I have seen that scream 'Sang' to me, but of course she's famously devious and with so many great works this round, I haven't actually read all of them yet, so I may be missing something obvious. Also I will add that I haven't listened to the podfics yet either so it's possible she's in there somewhere. But if she wrote a fic this round, I'll close my eyes and throw a dart at "The Lion's Roar." Violet_strange and tepidspongebath are also good candidates for this one. It has an unusual scene break marker which none of them appear to have used before (on a quick glance into their stories), so I don't know what to say about that. But this is the best guess I've got at the moment. *shrug*

[language_escapes]

Maybe I did... maybe I didn't. We'll never know...

(Or, y'know. We'll know tomorrow.)

[graycardinal]

A minor technical point: The Kincardine File was purest ACD (with a very slight nod toward the Kurland 'verse, as eventually noted in comments), though I'll grant you that that set of correspondence could reasonably be attributed to the Without A Clue characters as well.

Mind you, what strikes me as really interesting relative to the "Box One" authorship puzzle is T. Rhymer's comment on that story, which raises some interesting questions.

[rachelindeed]

Oh, thank you for the correction, I'm sorry to have misremembered! I think my brain mixed up 'Kincardine' with 'Kincaid' and my memory of the playful, humorous tone of the tale just had me accepting my WaC mistake. I do love that story, even if I had the verse a little confused <3333

Yes, wasn't that a lovely compliment from T. Rhymer? The highest praise! I've given up on guessing their identity, but perhaps this once I will join you in suspecting an absent gardnerhill XD She's getting guessed even more often when she's not a participant than when she is, lol! Her reach is long, and her myth is rising into legend...

[iwantthatcoat]

I’m having a good laugh either way. The only question is, is it at my own expense or someone else’s? ;)
BTW, I did try to copy someone else’s punctuation style (honest, I did try!) so my dashes are not my own, and a few other stylistic things. That might help or hurt guessing. But it’s all in the ellipses anyways!