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]

Thank you for another wonderful round, mods! There are so many new faces here for this exchange, it's so exciting (& will make the guessing extra challenging!) Add to that, one of our leading guessers, starfishstar, will have to recuse herself this time because she's (delightfully!) taking a bigger role behind the scenes! So...this guessing post is likely to be very tricky! CAN ANYONE CATCH SANGUINITY? ANYONE? Will scfrankles allow the moon to rise behind her on the Tor and arrive on the scene to dispel the mystery, or must we grope our way through the dark as best we can?

I have many, many more works to catch up on, but here are a couple preliminary guesses :)

My wonderful gift of Whitehead!Holmes/Pickering!Watson in all their sardonically enraptured glory must be from the inimitable ghostbees! *scatters roses* <333333

♢ ♧ ♤ ♡ = this delightful, sumptuous, otherwordly fic (set in the Sherlock Pilot!verse, no less!) must be saki101's :) No one describes clothing and architecture as lovingly as she does!

Treasures Which Defy Fortune = no one writes banter and miscellaneous antiques and good old-fashioned retirement-lovin' like sanspatronymic <3 I actually held off on commenting on this story because I thought "maybe someone might guess that I wrote it in the guessing post," but you know what, no. This is just so sanspatronymic, there's no point in pretending otherwise!

[iwantthatcoat]

And so it it begins....
♢ ♧ ♤ ♡ was written for me, so I have been thinking quite a bit about who it might be, and I have not been very successful. There are many potential authors for this one, some whom I do not know well (yet). It has a love of Mrs H as a fully sexually realized human which I tend to associate w Vulgarweed, but it doesn’t seem quite Vulgarweedish. The notes at the ending was quite intriguing and reminded me of OldShrewsburyian. Or someone trying to do something OldShrewsburyian does (I’m looking at you, Sanguinity, because you are exactly that devious). There is also only one chapter, though the story is longish, so that had to fit as well. Saki101 does this as well and writes quite a bit of magically themed works, but the thing that clinches it is Saki101 has left a comment/kudo on nearly every work posted earlyish (I stopped looking after a bit) and this one didn’t get that same treatment. Nor did Three Bowls but that’s a rarer fandom someone may have skipped for now and will come back to. But the gap in commenting on this one, plus the magical realism bent, plus the occasionally longer fic w one chapter makes me quite confident it’s Saki101. And looking at some of Saki101’s stories, which I now must devour, they also do the list of inspirational sources at the end. I call that conclusive.

[vulgarweed]

Willing to confirm, I loved ♢ ♧ ♤ ♡ and I didn't write it.

[starfishstar]

It's true! I had the privilege of seeing all the works as they came in (though I haven't had time yet to read/watch/listen/comment on ANYTHING and it's killing me – I want to tell you all how wonderful you are!) so I won't be part of the guessing this round. But I'm assured by Sanguinity that watching the guessing from the other side is great fun, too, and I'm looking forward to that. :-) (As always, Sang promises to snicker A LOT.)

I love, though, that your guesses are so connected to style and feeling and personal details like loving descriptions of architecture! I know I turned my own guessing increasingly technical, until it was a perfect mathematical puzzle, so I'm quite looking forward to watching some much more personal, style-based guessing unfold. It begins!