It was unovis I was thinking of - I thought they might have been matched to me because we had Without a Clue in common.

Because you had a candidate for who the initial match had been? Well, I suppose that probably did influence my thought processes. But really what I was thinking about was that, in terms of editing and formatting, ‘Nanti Polari’ is the more polished fic.

‘Police of Penzance’ has been written by a skilled writer and a lot of effort has clearly gone into it. Presumably research has gone into it, in order to get the ending. But within the fic there are a few slips. At the beginning there’s MRS TURNER kneels at his feet. Which seems to be an unintentional slip for ‘MRS HUDSON kneels at his feet.’ There is just one phrase of American English in it: He didn't go get married again, did he? There is a missing full stop at one point. There is the formatting - em dashes and double hyphens are both used, and some of the ellipses have more than three dots. All minor things, but put together it looks like someone hurrying to meet a deadline. Doesn’t mean in itself that the fic must be a pinch-hit. But if both ‘Nanti Polari’ and ‘Police of Penzance’ have been written by the same author, then one fic must be a pinch-hit and I would assume that one to be the less polished one.

*throws piece of popcorn into air and attempts to casually catch it in her mouth*

*misses*