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

[vulgarweed]

In trying to guess who wrote my AMAZING fic "The Adventure of the Three Gay Bowls" I have an advantage. It's a rare canon, "The Sexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (Townsend) By my count, only two people offered it and one of them was me. Since I know I didn't write it for myself, all signs point to fleetsparrow.

Looking over their other works, the willingness - nay, eagerness - to commit to the porn is also certainly a point that reinforces this. I do have to wonder if it's too easy, but sometimes, it is.

Of course it's possible that it was written by someone who matched with me on something else, saw that request and decided to write it although they hadn't offered. Absent any other compelling evidence, though I think the answer might be just what it appears to be. No reason at all to think it isn't fleetsparrow.

And wow, I love this story so much. Not only does it make up for TSAoSH's lack of women (completely understandable given author and audience), it redeems one of the weaker canon stories and gives Isadora Klein the antiheroine adventure she deserved. (I picture her looking a bit like that giant vampire lady from Resident Evil that Twitter is gaga over). And the author, whoever they may be, has committed so completely to Townsend's lurid, raunchy style that it slots in seamlessly. Absolutely delicious.