holmestice | Winter 2024 Guessing Post!

Thank you so much for another wonderful round of Holmestice! The mods want to say THANK YOU to all the creators who joined us this round. Being in this community with you is a joy and an honour.

Reveals and the Master List go up on December 21st. Until then, please enjoy and comment on all the lovely fanworks. (If you haven't thanked your creator for your own gift yet, please do!) Creators, please do NOT respond to Dreamwidth comments with your name attached or post your works elsewhere on the Internet until reveals go up in the community. You may of course reply to comments on AO3, which preserves your anonymity.

Meanwhile, stay tuned: treats are coming up! We have a bumper crop this round! For anyone thinking of making a treat, we will accept treats until reveals, so if there's a prompt that inspires you, please have at it! Just use the regular submission guidelines and send your headers to [email protected].

If you'd like to guess who created what in this round, here's a list of all the contributors for the main gifts. (You'll have to put in some extra work to guess the treat-makers!) Go ahead and take a guess! It's all in good fun.

Alec

armchair_elvis

beamkatanachronicles
Blistering_Typhoons
catlock_holmes

deelaundry

edosianorchids901
Egg_in_Hell

estelraca

gardnerhill

ghostbees

ghostofnuggetspast

graycardinal

happyeverafter72

helloliriels

iwantthatcoat

lucygturpin

oui_oui

paradiseandcola

penaltywaltz

rabidsamfan
Rachelea

rachelindeed

ratinavan

sarahenany

spacepolicedude

starfishstar

tepidspongebath

thefruitviking

vulgarweed
Will/justin_case

write_out

Go forth and leave love for your fellow Holmestice artists, authors, podficcers, and vidders! See you again on the 21st, when we reveal who made what!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I'd twirl my mustache, but (a) it was never long enough to twirl in the first place, and (b) I shaved it off earlier this year.

That said: if you're right that I wrote the Saberhagen piece, and vulgarweed wrote W&H, then who wrote Elementary and Russell? (I'd think the most likely way for that set of dominoes to fall over is via 'Coat, but we have enough newer players nowadays that I hesitate to rule any of them out, and unlike the Saberhagen, neither of those two fandoms is all that obscure.)

I will also note that sanguinity regularly (and with no little justification) often called me out for insufficient levels of sneakiness in prior rounds....

No no, but that's what I'm saying: That you wrote Elementary x Russell (even though, if that hadn't been there, I would have thought you wrote the Saberhagen) and thus my best guess is that vulgarweed wrote Saberhagen (not Watson and Holmes). And hence also being a little unsure about the Watson and Holmes, but ultimately deciding to slot rachelindeed in there.

So, surprisingly, Coat isn't part of this particular chain of dominoes at all! (Well. Unless they are...)

Hm, although one Coat wildcard that does get added into this mix is that Coat mentions above having talked up Watson and Holmes over on Discord, to the extent that maybe they've converted some new Watson and Holmes fans. So I suppose there's also the possibility the Watson and Holmes fic was written by someone new and unknown to both of us! (In which case I can have rachelindeed back for my other guesses elsewhere, which is good, because I may yet need her for my ACD guesses...)

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