graycardinal: Anya from "Anastasia"; "What was that title again?" (anya)
graycardinal ([personal profile] graycardinal) wrote in [community profile] holmestice 2024-12-21 10:24 am (UTC)

Coming in at the very last minute....

This will be spectacularly scattershot and incomplete, but I really, really wanted to get in a few bits of guesswork prior to reveals.

A Letter From France: ???
This was the gift work written for me, it is extraordinary on both an emotional level and as well-researched history, and any guess I make as to authorship is sheerest throwing-up-hands speculation. There are simply too many newer players or others whose work I haven't seen enough of, and likewise too many excellent veteran contributors in the game. If it's a veteran, my guess would be [personal profile] gardnerhill or [personal profile] rachelindeed, or maybe [profile] iwanttnatcoat; if it's a newer writer or someone I've been overlooking, perhaps [personal profile] estelraca or [personal profile] happyeverafter72. (If it turns out to be [personal profile] armchair_elvis, I will thwack myself on the forehead for no reason in particular save "I should have seen that!")

Blood of the Covenant, Water of the Womb: [personal profile] rabidsamfan
As one of the serious Saberhagan fans in the gallery, I can't very well overlook this (really good) story (that is, assuming that I didn't write it...and while I grant that it would be an unlikely work for me to have written given the pairing, whoever did write it has at least as deep a grounding as I do in the Saberhagen canon). This is again a pure guess, rather than any sort of deduction....

conductor of light: [personal profile] rachelindeed
As this round's purest out-and-out fantasy, I think this almost has to be [personal profile] rachelindeed's work (unless, as with others of my guesses, its author is someone new or someone whose work I've paid too little attention to over time). I made the mistake a round or two back of not considering her for a work of somewhat similar tone; this story makes me think of that error, and thus encourages me not to make it again.

Various treats for Basil of Baker Street/Great Mouse Detective: [personal profile] mundungus42
[personal profile] mundungus42 wrote a really, really fascinating Basil/Ratigan fic a round or two back that got quite a bit of attention (and deservedly so). They weren't signed up this round (being very, very busy in RL this yaer), but I have to think a couple of the multiple treats this round have their fingerprints attached.

And now to bed....


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