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holmesticemods ([personal profile] holmesticemods) wrote in [community profile] holmestice2017-12-16 05:53 am

Guessing Post

That's a wrap for the main round of gifts! Thank you so much for another wonderful round of Holmestice! The mods want to say THANK YOU to all the creators who joined us for this round. You put in a lot of hard work and made some wonderful things.

Reveals and the Master List go up on December 21st! Until then, please enjoy and comment on all the lovely fanworks. Creators, please do NOT respond to comments on DW or post your fanwork elsewhere until reveals go up in the community. (You may of course post to our AO3 Winter 2017 Holmestice collection, which preserves your anonymity. You may reply to AO3 comments, as well.)

The main round of gifts are all posted, but we're not done yet -- we have several days of treats coming up! We'll continue to accept treats right through until reveals, so if there's a prompt out there that intrigues you and you want to whip something up for it, please do! Just send it to [email protected], using the regular submission guidelines.

If you'd like to guess at who created what in this round, a list of all the creators is below the cut. Go ahead and take a guess! It's all in good fun.


[personal profile] a_different_equation
[personal profile] alexcat
[personal profile] amindamazed
[personal profile] ancientreader
[personal profile] angelqueen04
[personal profile] armchair_elvis
[personal profile] brilliantlyburning
[archiveofourown.org profile] clearinghouse
[personal profile] colebaltblue
[personal profile] discordantwords
[personal profile] dryadinthegrove
[personal profile] elareine
[personal profile] freebirdflying
[personal profile] gardnerhill
[personal profile] graycardinal
[personal profile] iwantthatcoat
[personal profile] jeremy_holmes
[personal profile] language_escapes
[personal profile] magnetic_pole
[archiveofourown.org profile] miss_violet_hunter
[personal profile] monkiainen
[personal profile] navaan
[tumblr.com profile] nottoolateforthegame
[livejournal.com profile] okapi1895
[personal profile] oldshrewsburyian
[personal profile] penaltywaltz
[personal profile] phoenixfalls
[personal profile] pip_pn_frodo
[personal profile] pipmer1
[archiveofourown.org profile] pocketbookangel
[personal profile] sanguinity
[personal profile] sanspatronymic
[personal profile] scfrankles
[personal profile] sjames_centre
[personal profile] smallhobbit
[personal profile] solrosan
[personal profile] starfishstar
[personal profile] tripleransom
[personal profile] trobadora
WhouffleLover24
[personal profile] write_out
[tumblr.com profile] wssh-watson




Go forth and leave love for your fellow Holmestice authors, artists, and podficcers. See you again on the 21st, when we reveal who made what!
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[personal profile] starfishstar 2017-12-21 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Despite a very valiant effort, I’m still not quite caught up with reading everything; but it’s late in my time zone and this is the best I can do. Here are my guesses!

ELEMENTARY
• The Five Doctors – definitely [personal profile] gardnerhill
• An L.A. Story – [personal profile] phoenixfalls (an LA story by someone from LA?)
• if you come to find out who you are – maybe [personal profile] a_different_equation, who not only offered Elementary and Ritchie but also mentioned crossovers, metafiction and character study in their sign-up
• After All Is Said And Done (written for colebaltblue, who didn’t exactly request Elementary, so the writer probably matched on something else, ACD or Granada? but I’m not sure who)

MARY RUSSELL
• sewing her skin together as i sew mine (Mary Russell/Enola Holmes) – [personal profile] language_escapes (only language_escapes and angelqueen04 offered both Enola Holmes, and it’s a gift for angelqueen04!)
• The State of His Mind – (can only be angelqueen04 or graycardinal; scfrankles says graycardinal, but I don’t know his work well enough to be sure)
• Insoluble Puzzles (Charlotte Holmes/Mary Russell) – either angelqueen04 OR someone who matched on graycardinal for something else but decided to give these ‘verses a go

A STUDY IN EMERALD
• “How different, how very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen!” – perhaps [profile] pocketbookangel, as the only one to signed up with BBC and Emerald, and mention Sherlock/Jim
• A Scandal in Britannia – perhaps [personal profile] alexcat, from amongst the Emerald-offerers, who expressed a willingness to write gen?

EXIT SHERLOCK HOLMES
• Choice of Exit – [personal profile] trobadora! (the only person besides navaan to offer this ‘verse, it’s Holmes/Moriarty AND trobadora hasn’t commented on it despite a known love for Holmes/Moriarty? I made the mistake last time, and have learned my lesson: when it comes to Moriarty, if it could be trobadora, it is trobadora. ;-)

BERT COULES
• Candid Review of a Fine Play – either iwantthatcoat out of the pool of Coules-offerers (though scfrankles has quite determinedly placed them elsewhere!) or someone who matched with sanguinity based on something else

I defer to scfrankles’ expertise on Nanti Polari (Rathbone) and I have no idea about The Pomeranian Affair (Ritchie) – though I think it’s between ArmchairElvis, miss_violet_hunter and monkiainen?

Two mystery fandoms, that appeared in the works despite not being in the sign-ups! Lady Sherlock and Newman Moriarty…I want to know who wrote them!

Not going to speculate on MDBD, since it’s a small pool and I’ve already been named as a suspect. ;-)

GRANADA/ACD
• The Charm of the Season – [personal profile] scfrankles! gen, lightheartedness, compassion for minor characters – these are hallmarks of scfrankles, yes? (I was stumped looking for scfrankles among the ACD offerings, but then I remembered this sneaky “Granada/ACD” category.)
• The Midnight Caller – but here I have no idea!

That's the small fandoms; ACD/BBC post in a moment.
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[personal profile] starfishstar 2017-12-21 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
ACD
• The Problem of the Untold Story – [personal profile] navaan (who wrote Holmes/Moriarty last time too)
• I Am the Girl for Her – if [personal profile] sanguinity wrote an ACD fic, maybe it’s this one? that’s not so much a guess, though, as just a pondering
• The Mystery of the Human Heart – maybe [personal profile] oldshrewsburyian, who expressed a preference for gen?
• A Combination of Events – [personal profile] sanspatronymic? because surely they have to have written something ACD
• A Ride in the Park – [personal profile] tripleransom? (consensus seems to say it’s tripleransom or colebaltblue, and colebaltblue left kudos on it!)

Don’t know about the rest of the ACD entries…but everything scfrankles has said sounds solid!

BBC
• You Are as Far as Invention, and I Am as Far as Memory – [personal profile] ancientreader
• I, Spy? – perhaps [personal profile] solrosan, since it’s Anthea-centric?

And…that’s all I’ve got. Lots of the other BBC guesses made by others sound right to me, but I certainly can’t claim to have thought of them myself.

Whew! Bedtime for this very tired Holmestice-guesser.
Edited (for formatting) 2017-12-21 01:22 (UTC)
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[personal profile] oldshrewsburyian 2017-12-21 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I will confess that I am not the author of "The Mystery of the Human Heart," alas, but I am flattered by the presumption that I might be, as I think it's beautifully-written. It also contains several of the things that might be thought of as my tells: layered historical detail and references both to concerts and to "one of our great university towns."
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[personal profile] colebaltblue 2017-12-21 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
:D
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[personal profile] trobadora 2017-12-21 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
I won't (can't) say anything else, but I will say that no one should take my not commenting on any one entry as a sign of anything, since (alas) I'm not caught up on reading yet.

I really wanted to get in on the guessing this time, but December turned out rather busier than expected, and I just haven't had the time. :(
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[personal profile] trobadora 2017-12-22 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
I made the mistake last time, and have learned my lesson: when it comes to Moriarty, if it could be trobadora, it is trobadora. ;-)

You have learned your lesson, indeed! I'll never be able to deceive anyone ever again, will I? *g*

(Not unless some more Holmes/Moriarty writers join Holmestice, that is. I wish!)

Seriously, though, your comment brought a great big smile to my face. Thank you for that!
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[personal profile] sanguinity 2017-12-22 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
(Not unless some more Holmes/Moriarty writers join Holmestice, that is. I wish!)

Go recruiting, and bring them around to play! We'd love to have them, and the bigger the mix-and-match pool is, the more fun everyone has. :-)
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[personal profile] trobadora 2017-12-22 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I knew more Holmes/Moriarty people! I would love to. But [personal profile] navaan is the only one, and she's already here.
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[personal profile] starfishstar 2017-12-22 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
:-) I continue to be impressed with your fics! I'm really not a Moriarty shipper or a Moriarty fan or any of that, but you keep writing these fics that deal thoughtfully and complexly with two nuanced not-all-black-or-white characters and are able to get me on board with examining just how complex their interactions can be, and...yeah. Impressive!

(I'm guessing you're a big fan of the Doctor and Missy?? No spoilers, please – I still have two episodes to go before I'm caught up in time for the upcoming special – but I just last night watched "Eaters of Light," and the dynamic between the two of them there was a lot like this.)
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[personal profile] trobadora 2017-12-22 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
*blushes* Wow, you give the most amazing compliments. :D

(And yes, absolutely! I loved Missy from the start, but series 10 made me ship Doctor/Master so hard, you have no idea. Or perhaps you will, after you finish the remaining episodes! *g* I really couldn't resist; that dynamic is right up my alley. I've written some Missy fic since then, too.)