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HOLMESTICE GUESSES, PART THE FIRST: ART AND PODFIC

I know it always seems like artists should be the easiest to guess (there are far fewer artworks than fics in Holmestice, plus individual artistic style is visual and generally distinctive!) but I always seem to have trouble with it. I can stare at two artworks endlessly, being like, I don't know, *is* the shape of the noses similar? maybe?

Also, in the past I've been able to find more past works by the artists to compare to the current works, but this time I could hardly find any! I think maybe all y'all have moved on to different platforms from when I was last fully engaged in fandom...or maybe I just no longer understand how Tumblr works ;-)

Anyway, so, I'm not super confident about the logical foundations of my art guesses, but nonetheless, here we go!

a helping hand for spacepolicedude (ART, Russian Holmes) by paradiseandcola
This one's a guess of the old-school sort; paradiseandcola is the only participant who offered both art and Russian Holmes in their sign-up but didn't comment/kudos this work.

at this season of the year more than ever for Edosianorchids901 (ART, Granada) by ghostbees
You amazing art folks all seem to know each other (from the Holmesian Discord?) so I'm sure you know each other's artistic styles, but I just couldn't decide if this is recognizably ghostbees! And that's even though I was able to find a few of ghostbees' past works from previous rounds of Holmestice, so I had more data to go on here than with most of the Holmestice artworks. But I just couldn't tell. Finally, I made my choice based on the way Holmes and Watson are making eye contact in this work, because I realized eye contact between the two of them is a feature of most of the other ghostbees art I was able to find.

Chasing the Adventure for GhostofNuggetsPast (ART, Sherlock & Co. Podcast) by lucygturpin
The art style here really seems to match a previous Sherlock & Co work I found by lucygturpin... So much so that of course I found space to second-guess myself. ;-)

Little Talks for write_out (ART, Mycroft Holmes series) by oui_oui
Old-school again; narrowed this down simply because oui_oui matches on having offered both art and the Mycroft Holmes series!

The Meeting of the Minds for beamkatanachronicles (ART, Granada x Agatha Christie) by helloliriels
This is where I was going back and forth endlessly about which artwork was helloliriels and which was ghostbees. But I finally assigned ghostbees to the other one and thus helloliriels here. Yes, that's how advanced my capability to recognize art is. :D

In Another Life for FruitViking (ART, ACD) by Egg_in_Hell
Feels kinda like cheating, but once I knew the information I couldn't unknow it: The mods posted a note about FruitViking potentially getting two gifts (one from a pinch hitter and one from the originally assigned creator), which made it clear that there had to be a work that's for FruitViking and by a pinch hitter... And Egg_in_Hell is the only pinch hitter this round!

I Need You for iwantthatcoat (ART, Sherlock & Co) by ratinavan
This lush, intricate work seems like it's got to be unmistakably in some specific person's style...but like I said, I couldn't find examples of art by almost any of the artists who signed up for this round of Holmestice. So, is this piece in ratinavan's style in particular?? I don't know!

5 o’clock flattery for oui oui (ART, Russian Holmes) by spacepolicedude
This seemed like the most likely match, given that spacepolicedude offered both art and Russian Holmes, and especially once other creators had been attached to other works. (My notes literally read, "seems like the best match on fandom and I *think* the style matches okay?" I'm so good at understanding art, you guys!)

Fated Encounters for penaltywaltz (PODFIC, Star Trek x BBC) by ghostofnuggetspast
Here I think I did actually find a voice match to another podfic I found by ghostofnuggetspast! Plus, it doesn't hurt that ghostofnuggetspast's sign-up offered *only* podfic or limericks...and I don't think there are any limericks among the works. ;-)

Ooh, I did NOT know about crypto-limericks! After reveals, please tell me more!
Or in other words...

I'm intrigued by this art form you mention!
Crypto-limericks need my attention?
Do please tell me more,
My ears are all your(s),
Let me learn this new poem convention!