Summer 2025 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 20 (Baker Island time). 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 with your name attached 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.

Meanwhile, stay tuned: treats are coming up! We have a bumper crop this round! 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.



a_candle_for_sherlock
Alec
armchair_elvis
beamkatanachronicles
Blistering_Typhoons
bluebellofbakerstreet
CumberCurlyGirl
deelaundry
edosianorchids901
estelraca
flowing_river
gardnerhill
ghostbees
ghostofnuggetspast
graycardinal
happyeverafter72
iwantthatcoat
KameoDouglas
kingstoken
lxvenderjewel
mom2boys
oui_oui
paradiseandcola
penaltywaltz
randomquadballpun
ratinavan
rudbeckia
snycock
tepidspongebath
vulgarweed
write_out





Go forth and leave love for your fellow Holmestice artists, authors, podficcers, and vidders! See you again on the 20th, when we reveal who made what!

Comments

[beamkatanachronicles]

I will neither confirm nor deny, but I will admit to changing punctuation around in the hopes of throwing off the scent. 🤭 Clearly I should be getting more creative than that!

I do agree on my gift being from rudbeckia, though. oorsprong being there that quickly made me instantly suspect them as the redacted beta.

[iwantthatcoat]

Yeah I changed all punctuation to match what my beta suggested because I know I have distinct dashes but I never seem to remember what is *correct* spacing. TBh I don’t think I ever learned it.

[beamkatanachronicles]

It looks like most style guides say no spacing—like this—is correct, but some will accept spaced en dashes. I'm going to continue breaking the rules... just maybe not for Holmestice lol. I'm pretty sure my dashes-- like this-- gave me away last time!

[acorn_squash]

An em-dash with no spacing is generally accepted, yeah. However, AP Stylebook mandates an em dash with spaces on each side, which is my preferred style — though perhaps not for Holmestice!