holmestice | Master List

Sorted by category and fandom, all the amazing fanworks created by this year's participants, for your perusal and entertainment and finally with the names attached. Now comments can be answered and works reposted all over the web, and pimping shall commence far and wide!

Recipients: while it's in no way a rule and requirement to comment on your gift (and most of you have done so already), it is nevertheless highly encouraged.

If you haven't added your fanwork to the AO3 collection, and you want to, you can add it here: Holmestice Exchange - Winter 2017.

ETA: For those who have already posted their works to the AO3 collection, we recommend updating your posting date to today, as works are ordered in the tags by posting date, not reveal date, and your works probably never received their proper turn at the top of their respective tags.

And now, without further ado, the Grand Reveal!

Artwork

BBC 2010

moodboard for "Making the Same Mistakes" by colebaltblue for nottoolateforthegame (Holmes/Watson, M)
Assorted BBC Wallpapers by penaltywaltz for solrosan (Holmes/Watson/Morstan, no pairings, G)

Elementary

One Watson, One Holmes by ficklepig for amindamazed (no pairing, G)

Fanmix

BBC 2010

Stand By Me by penaltywaltz for solrosan (Holmes/Watson/Morstan, G)
Three Anthea Ship Mini Mixes by penaltywaltz for solrosan (Anthea/Molly, Anthea/Irene, Anthea/Sally, PG)

Fiction

ACD Canon

A Case of Identities by graycardinal for starfishstar (no pairing, G)
The Case of the Frog Murder and the Disembodied Dog’s Head by a_different_equation for sanspatronymic (Holmes/Watson, T)
The Case of the Sleeping Servants by smallhobbit for oldshrewsburyian (no pairing, G)
The Charm of the Season by jeremy_holmes for alexcat (no pairing, G)
A Combination of Events by colebaltblue for dryadinthegrove (Holmes/Watson, G)
I Am the Girl For Her by sanspatronymic for magnetic_pole (Holmes/Watson, G)
A Million Shades of Green by dryadinthegrove for monkiainen (no pairing, PG13)
The Mystery of the Human Heart by magnetic_pole for smallhobbit (no pairing, PG)
Police of Penzance by iwantthatcoat for scfrankles (Wiggins/Mabel, G)
The Problem of the Untold Story by navaan for tripleransom (Holmes/Moriarty, Holmes/Watson, G)
A Ride in the Park by tripleransom for jeremy_holmes (no pairing, T)

ACD x Granada

The Midnight Caller by miss_violet_hunter for unovis (Holmes/Watson, PG)

BBC 2010

Abditory by write_out for pip_pn_frodo (Holmes/Watson, T)
All He Could Ever Want by nottoolateforthegame for 796116311389 (Holmes/Watson, M)
And We'll Never be Alone Again by pip_pn_frodo for pipmer1 (no pairing, T)
Burnt Wool and Viscum Album by brilliantlyburning for freebirdflying (Holmes/Watson, G)
The Cake Dilemma by okapi1895 for ficklepig (no pairing, T)
The Case of the Missing Fiancé by freebirdflying for sjames_centre (Holmes/Watson, E)
Four Times Sherlock Holmes Bent the Truth, and One Time He Was Completely Honest by pipmer1 for penaltywaltz (no pairing, T)
I, Spy? by solrosan for ancientreader (no pairing, T)
In Sickness, To Health by penaltywaltz for solrosan (Mycroft/Anthea, G)
love is a deeper season by wssh-watson for Emily Apismelifera (Holmes/Watson, M)
More Than A Recurring Shag by penaltywaltz for solrosan (no pairing, PG)
Neeps and Tatties by dryadinthegrove for wssh-watson (Holmes/Watson, PG13)
New Memories by WhouffleLover24 for discordantwords (Holmes/Watson, PG)
Old Haunts by discordantwords for brilliantlyburning (Holmes/Watson, M)
A Thousand Kisses Deep by sjames_centre for WhouffleLover24 (Holmes/Watson, E)
You Are as Far as Invention, and I Am as Far as Memory by ancientreader for write_out (no pairing, G)

BBC 2010 x A Study in Emerald

“How different, how very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen!” by pocketbookangel for trobadora (Holmes/Moriarty, T)

A Study in Emerald

A Scandal in Britannia by oldshrewsburyian for miss_violet_hunter (Holmes/Watson, T)

Coules Radioplays

Candid Review of a Fine Play by clearinghouse for sanguinity (no pairing, G)

Elementary

After All Is Said And Done by monkiainen for colebaltblue (no pairing, PG)
An L.A. Story by phoenixfalls for gardnerhill (Holmes/Hudson, M)

Elementary x Ritchie Movies

if you come to find out who you are by armchair_elvis for phoenixfalls (Holmes/Watson/Bell, Watson/Carrie, M)

Ritchie Movies

A Marriage of Three by navaan for tripleransom (Holmes/Watson/Morstan, G)
The Pomeranian Affair by alexcat for a_different_equation (no pairing, G)

Exit Sherlock Holmes

Choice of Exit by trobadora for navaan (Holmes/Moriarty, PG13)

Lady Sherlock

A Woman is Herself by elareine for language_escapes (Watson/husband, T)

Mary Russell

The State of His Mind by angelqueen04 for armchair_elvis (Holmes/Russell, PG)

Mary Russell x Enola Holmes

sewing her skin together as i sew mine by language_escapes for angelqueen04 (no pairing, G)

Mary Russell x Charlotte Holmes

Insoluble Puzzles by amindamazed for graycardinal (no pairing, T)

My Dearly Beloved Detective

The Fixed Foot by starfishstar for okapi1895 (Holmes/Watson, PG13)

Newman Moriarty

The Engineer’s Thumb & Other Body Parts by scfrankles for pocketbookangel (no pairing, T)

Rathbone Films

Nanti Polari by iwantthatcoat for clearinghouse (Holmes/Watson, T)

Multi-verse

The Five Doctors by gardnerhill for elareine (no pairing, PG13)

Podfic

BBC 2010

As Romeo to Juliet by sanguinity for iwantthatcoat (Holmes/Violin, Teen)

Many thanks to everyone who participated! If you see any mistakes or omissions in the master list, please email the mods and we'll get it fixed up ASAP.

We'll be editing the posts now to put all the author/artist and beta information in there as well, but it's going to take some time. Please have a little patience; we'll get there.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

scfrankles

GRAYCARDINAL YOU WRETCHED MAN

Ahem. Well, some surprises there. In particular, I never once suspected

oldshrewsburyian had written a Study in Emerald fic. But looking at my stated guesses, I think I have scored 12 out of 14, which I'm very happy with.

Congratulations to all creators, and thank you to the mods for all their hard work. It's been quite a ride! ^__^ And I'd just like to apologise to

starfishstar as well - best to get that in early ^^"

From:

colebaltblue

You were batting 1000 there for a bit and Sang and I were having quite the discussion about it.

Edited Date: 2017-12-21 07:04 pm (UTC)

From:

scfrankles

I've certainly improved on my detective skills since last time ^__^

From:

sanguinity

I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU TO NAIL GRAYCARDINAL. ROOTING FOR YOU, YOU HEAR??

You want

graycardinal's tell? Since I'll probably never be allowed to guess again, someone should get to use it...

From:

scfrankles

It was never going to happen, unfortunately :P

Ooo, tempted... But I think I ought to try and work out his tell myself - good deducing practice! ^__^

From:

starfishstar

I...I kind of want it. Am I allowed to ask? Is that cheating?

And THANK YOU, MODS, FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO! I love this fest so much.

From:

graycardinal

Cheating would imply that there are rules for this phase of the game....

Then again, per my comment below, it may be that we're about to find ourselves in an auction. :-)

From:

starfishstar

Ooh, if it's a going to be a bidding war, I think I'm going to have to concede defeat in advance... Plying sanguinity with homemade cookies, from here in Scotland, seems unlikely to happen. Much fun though that might be to try. :-)

From:

sanguinity

Giving up so easily? Boo!

Sadly for

graycardinal, I've already stated his tell here on the comm; it's there to be found, if someone cared to look. And I'm unsure if even his baking is good enough to persuade me to go back and delete the historical record...

From:

starfishstar

Ooooh, a most excellent clue!

From:

scfrankles

Oh. Dear. God.

I don't know if it's the tell but I've just seen a really obvious tell for graycardinal. Hurry up, next Holmestice! *quivers in frustration*

From:

graycardinal

Dear me; now *I* want to know what my tell is. (As I noted to

scfrankles elsewhere, I definitely need to keep an eye on formatting going forward, given all the typographic deduction going on this last round, but I don't think that's what you have in mind.)

Let's just see, though. How many cookies do you suppose it would take to induce a convenient loss of memory with respect to this "tell" we're discussing?

From:

starfishstar

Wait...which part are you apologizing for? If it's for succeeding in thoroughly confounding all of us with your sneaky Newman Moriarty fic...well done!!

*Very* excellent guessing, too. Looks like I got 9/14 of my guesses right, which is nothing on your 12/14. (Might have, um, helped if I'd had time to read all the submissions first – I'm still catching up!)

And I'd like to join you in saying GRAYCARDINAL wrote my Doctor Who crossover gift?? So sneaky!!

From:

scfrankles

I did feel rather bad about misleading you... But it felt very, very good too :P

9/14 is a perfectly respectable score - I'm just feeling perky because my percentage score has gone up from last time ^__^

And sneaky is not the word - did you see in his guessing comment he assigned his own fic to me? That's just adding insult to injury ^_^ And now that we know which is his fic, it just seems so embarrassingly obvious. Graycardinal has done an ACD crossover before, and has written Doctor Who fics before.

From:

sanguinity

He did that to me once, too. And after I'd already correctly guessed his fic! But I've decided since then that attributing his own story to someone is just how he shows his affection.

(And he made me cookies, after, which helped, too.)

From:

graycardinal

I think I like that explanation. :-)

From:

graycardinal

[chuckling]

The thing is, there's no good way to avoid the problem of what to do with one's own fic in the guessing stage. If you're attempting to guess most/all of the stories in a given cluster, it's going to be awfully conspicuous if you fail to make a guess at just one story. You can't very well file a guess that says "I must have written that one". The only other solution is to deliberately mis-attribute one's own story, but that appears to have its own pitfalls....

From:

starfishstar

You did it so excellently, though, that all I can do is admire! You didn't offer a heavy-handed alternate guess for your own fic; you just agreed with me that my guess was reasonable, but you had some other thoughts in mind, and anyway, and then glided smoothly away from the topic, never to return. :-)

From:

graycardinal

[glyph of amusement]

Heh. I was very, very nervous when you initially stated you'd fingered me but did not specify a reason or title, because I was almost sure you'd figured out a typographic tell of some sort (and you may be sure that next round, I'll be paying attention to those more closely).

But then I was highly amused when you tagged me for the Russell fic. It was really and truly a reasonable guess, given my own prior Russellverse contribution several rounds back; both stylistically and thematically, I am not surprised that people ascribed it to me.

In truth, of course, I'd actually written something entirely different, and I am pleased to have floated entirely under people's radar this time around.

From:

language_escapes

SCFRANKLES wrote the Newman Moriarty???? I would never, in a THOUSAND YEARS, have guessed that!

From:

sanguinity

Coulda knocked me over with a feather when she sent it in!

But she's done this before, you know, matched on ACD (I think it was ACD?) and then turned around and wrote for the most obscure of her recip's requests. And she has quite the gift for voices, too, as she demonstrated in this last round of

acdholmesfest.

Even so, I didn't imagine we'd get a Moriarty-centric story from her!

From:

scfrankles

I think you might be thinking specifically about rachelindeed... We've both matched with graycardinal on ACD but Rachel wrote a Murder By Decree fic and I wrote in the rather less obscure Without a Clue 'verse. This is a somewhat new experience for me :P

Even so, I didn't imagine we'd get a Moriarty-centric story from her! To be honest, I think of it as a Moran-centric story. In the context of his own world, I find him quite a likeable and sympathetic character.

From:

scfrankles

What can I say? Kim Newman's versions of Moran and Moriarty work for me ^___^

From:

trobadora

Woohoo!

Thank you for another wonderful Holmestice - it really is my favourite fannish exchange. :D

(Wish I had time to go and answer comments right now, but I have to dash. Glad to have been here for reveals, though!)

From:

write_out

So many good stories! I've got some catching up to do on reading on commenting and I'm looking forward to that! I've got some new 'verses to check out, too. Thanks for all of the great fanworks, everyone!

This isn't my first Holmestice as a reader, but it is my first as a participant. An extra big thanks goes to the mods for their patience and help!

From:

iwantthatcoat

Things I have learned:
Next time someone else needs to type my fic.
I could listen to sanguinity read all day...and I think I will.
Don't go against scfrankles. You will lose. Badly.

This was such a fun first time, folks. I thank you so very much.

From:

jeremy_holmes

This was my first Holmestice and it was so much fun. The variety of pieces done was amazing. So many talented people!! Thanks especially to the mods for patiently replying to my questions and the betas who did a great job.

From:

ancientreader

Thank you, thank you, thank you again, wonderful mods, for another delightful exchange. I look forward to it so much between rounds, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate your hard work & care.

From:

nottoolateforthegame

This was my first Holmestice and I am so glad I participated! Thanks, of course, to the mods! And thanks to everyone whoeshared their work-I am inspired by you lot.

From:

magnetic_pole

First-time participant here, too--thanks to

write_out for taking the plunge with me and providing moral support. Thank you so much to the mods for such a friendly and well-organized fest and to my fellow participants and readers for such wonderful stories and thoughtful comments. Happy Holmestice, everyone! M.

From:

sjames_centre

Thanks for everything - it was a great Holmestice! I'm still reading....

One question- how do you update the posting date on AO3?

From:

sanguinity (

as admin)

So glad you enjoyed! :-D

To update the posting date, click "Edit" at the top of the fic. Under "Associations" (the same group where you set collections and whether its a gift), tick "Set a different posting date." It should be straightforward from there.

And go ahead and set it to today's date (or whenever you do it); the point is to give it a moment at the top of its associated tags, however brief that moment might be.

From:

sjames_centre

Thanks! Got it!

From:

pipmer1

Thank you mods, for keeping this lovely exchange going. I've only done it once before -- back in 2012! -- and I'm so grateful I had the opportunity to do it again. Thank you.