HOLMESTICE GUESSES, PART THE SECOND: “MORE HOLMES” FIC

Colourless Skein Detective Agency LLP: Introductions for ratscanwrite (Sherlock & Co. Podcast) by deelaundry
OMG, when I read this fic, I was so sure it was written by Iwantthatcoat! I was so sure! But this fic is one of the few places I was able to fit DeeLaundry, and Coat also seems to fit better elsewhere, so here we go. (Also, the author's vioce in replying to comments didn't quite sound like Coat? But Coat is such a known chameleon that I couldn't quite count on that.) DeeLaundry, if you indeed wrote this strange and wonderful piece of world-and-character-building, please know what a compliment it is, to my mind, that I mistook you for Coat!

crystallization for sarahenany (The Great Mouse Detective) by Blistering_Typhoons
There are a lot of folks in Holmestice now who are new to me, so I don't have much to go on besides my old bag of tricks of glancing at various works and trying to find a match in terms of punctuation and such. Blistering_Typhoons seems to match on punctuation and tagging, plus that uncapitalized title helps. :-)

The Final Adventure of a Problematic, Lying Detective (Aka Oklahomo IV) for DeeLaundry (NRK Sherlock Parody (Oklahomo)) by Iwantthatcoat
Iwantthatcoat was the almost-too-obvious choice here, in terms of someone the mods would have matched to recipient DeeLaundry, since the two of them match on an almost absurd number of fandoms. I kept trying to make the facts fit my theory that Coat wrote the Sherlock & Co AU above, but eventually had to cede to reason. If I'm wrong about Coat having written this NRK parody fic, though, then the other creators I considered here were vulgarweed (matches with DeeLaundry on a couple of fandoms) or tepidspongebath (only matches on BBC, but known for humor).

The Really Final Problem for armchair_elvis (Elementary x Mary Russell) by graycardinal
I hesitate to go for the obvious, but graycardinal was the only one to offer both of these 'verses, and the formatting does seem mostly to match. graycardinal, if this is indeed you, know that I used to recognize you a lot more easily by various things about formatting and author's notes, but I had a hard time with it this time – so you have gotten sneakier!

Scenes from Baker Towers for me!!! (221B Baker Towers) by sarahenany
This was actually one of my first guesses this round, since the creator of my thoughtful 221B Baker Towers fic was most likely someone who'd shown themself willing to dive into obscure 'verses (sarahenany didn't actually even offer 221B Baker Towers, but they offered the Shirley & Jamila series, a duo of middle grade graphic novels, and I VERY much bet that the mods matched us based on that extremely rare fandom!) And the author of my gift also seemed to be someone new to me, who hadn't written for me before (we who request the very obscure 'verses do tend to get to know one another...) so this seemed like a match all around. (Thank you, sarahenany, if so you be, for your gifts and your sweet enthusiasm!!)

The Responsibility of All Humanity for Vulgarweed (Dust and Shadow) by estelraca
And now I am boring again...estelraca was the only one to offer this 'verse. :D

Was There a Shadow, Was There Nothing for gardnerhill (Watson and Holmes Comics) by rachelindeed
Iwantthatcoat is the obvious choice here (matched with recipient gardnerhill on literally 10 different fandoms...including this, the Watson and Holmes Comics) but I'm pretty sure I've placed Coat elsewhere. (I think??) And vulgarweed is the other person who offered the Watson and Holmes Comics, but I think I need to place them elsewhere, too. (See below.) So that left rachelindeed (didn't offer this fandom, but matched with gardnerhill on plenty of other fandoms and seems like someone willing to branch out into a new one) or beamkatanachronicles (an excellent match for gardnerhill on numerous fandoms, including rare ones, but someone I don't know and can't guess whether they might have jumped to a new fandom). So I took the safer bet, rachelindeed!

Blood of the Covenant, Water of the Womb for rabidsamfan (Saberhagen Holmes-Dracula File) by vulgarweed
This one gave me trouble too, because only graycardinal offered this rare 'verse (the Saberhagen Holmes-Dracula File) but I'd already placed graycardinal elsewhere, for an even more niche fic (Elementary x Mary Russell crossover). (Also, this Saberhagen fic is Holmes/Watson – would graycardinal have written Holmes/Watson?) So I am cautiously placing vulgarweed here. But if I'm wrong, and graycardinal wrote this Saberhagen work, then vulgarweed wrote the Watson and Holmes Comics fic above!

Hurrah, thank you for joining me in guessing, obfuscating, and related silliness!

And the comments absolutely do not read like me, *which, therefore, absolutely does read like me*. But my calling attention to this does not read like me. Or maybe it does. Come to think of it, it does.

All true statements. Which is precisely why I never assign too much credence to any one factor! :-) FWIW, I do think you were telling the truth above when you said you didn't write Luaidh mo chéile.

You're making me think I should do one of those "two truths and a lie" things with clues about which work is mine, like you've sometimes done in the past. Or graycardinal has done? Anyway, someone has done.