holmestice | The Spreadsheet of Doom™ returns!! (Reply)

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A number of our newer players may not know or remember this, but when I first signed up for Holmestice these many moons ago, I leapt headlong into the guessing posts by building a Spreadsheet of Doom™ in order to better work out who'd done what. Eventually, though, especially as the rounds got bigger and real life got busier, compiling the spreadsheets grew impractical - there was too much data and not enough time to type.

This time out, though - we're a somewhat smaller pool, there are fewer variables in play, and I happen to have a bit more spare time at the right moments this week. There is, therefore, a genuine spreadsheet here at the virtual Batcave, and I think I have some hope of matching up works and creators more accurately than has usually been the case. This will not, mind you, necessarily prevent me from playing the Comic Relief Guesser as has often been the case in the intervening rounds....

Before I start, I'll note a handful of interesting anomalies in the data. There's at least one work in the collection for a recipient not on the list of contributors, and there's one contributor listed for whom I can find neither a signup nor a gift. (Logically, that's the description of a pinch-hitter, but in the past we haven't usually seen pinch-hitters named openly in the guessing-post contributors' lists.)

Part the First: Art

So - let's begin with art. We have four art submissions this round in three fandoms plus one (The Hobbit being outside the Holmesian spectrum), and I counted five offers of art among the pool of contributors. A couple of these individuals offered both art and fic, and on that basis I dropped one of the five from the art-grid (I'm morally certain that person wrote fic for the current round).

That leaves four artists and four excellent works in a range of fandoms that seems to me to sort itself out neatly. My guesses are as follows:

# inkonice • "Yet Another Brain-Wave" (for ACD)
# ratinavan • "May the Fourth" (for Sherlock & Co.)
# 4thelneyj0nes • "Beloved Embrace" (for My Dearly Beloved Detective)
# lucygturpin • "A Present for Smaug" (for ACD and The Hobbit)