The End! And Guessing Post!

[holmesticemods]

Well, that's it for this round!

We've posted exchange gifts for 41 fanwork creators in just under 2 weeks.

Reveals and the master list will be posted on the summer solstice - Monday, June 20th.

In the mean time, read the fic or view the art or listen to the podfic. And comment here or our AO3 collection to let these creators know how much we've

Comments

[graycardinal]

An impressive round on pretty much all fronts. Congratulations to all the recipients, kudos to all the dedicated creators (look at all those multi-post epics!), and blessings on the moderators!

[starts building spreadsheet to facilitate guessing]

[rachelindeed]

Wow! Thank you, mods, for running this lovely exchange once again. It's been a bright spot in my days the last few weeks. And congratulations to all the creators, thank you for your wonderful work! It felt to me like this round resulted in an exceptionally diverse anthology of fanworks.

Perhaps because of the diversity, I don't have as many guesses as I usually do -- I think a lot of people tried something new this time around, which is awesome! But it makes the guessing even trickier than usual :)

So I will stick to the few I feel confident about, and wait to be surprised with all the rest!

saki101 has such amazing imaginative style and detailed world-building, I think I see their hand behind The House of Usher.

scfrankles loves Mrs. Hudson and loves to laugh; surely I see her spirit shining through Dust and Ashes.

And, this is going to sound really weird since I haven't even had the chance to finish reading it yet, but given what I have read, the length, the adoration of its readers, its clean prose and powerful emotion, I feel like The

[saki101]

Thank you for this! I've been waiting to affirm that you did, indeed, guess correctly! :-D

[swissmarg]

Thank you for the very flattering words accompanying your correct guess about my fic. The length definitely, ha! I just can't seem to write short things. :p

[sanguinity]

Why yes, that is a project that I might chosen, well-spotted! :-D

Would you enjoy prompting a vidlet? It's part of the Holmestice fun for me to offer a treat for people who correctly guess my contribution, and wouldn't you know, I have a TON of Holmesian source sitting on my hard-drive, plus a deep stack of notes about where the cool bits are, and I used only the barest fraction of any of it in the vid.

So. Prompt a vidlet? Topic or 'verse (no BBC please for force-balancing reasons, but obvs nearly anything else in the vid is a go, and I've got a few more adapts sitting around that I haven't used, try me).

[mahmfic]

oh my gosh that's all!? wow!! you guys work hard!

Audiovisual deductions

[graycardinal]

In some ways, this is a fiendishly complicated round in which to make guesses; OTOH, in certain cases, the math is pretty straightforward - at least, so long as one can rely on the gifts as posted to match the offers as made in the signups. (Go go Gadget spreadsheet!)

We have, for instance, two excellent vids this round, and two players who offered to make vids. A combination of external evidence makes one of the two attributions nearly certain, and that neatly ties off the other.

Something Good (Will Come From That) - sanguinity
How Long - knowmefirst

Similarly, we have two podfics and three would-be providers of podfic...but both podfics are derived from BBC/Sherlock stories, and I think it’s safe to assume that gardnerhill is an unlikely creator for either of those. That sorts the other two out neatly:

En Passant - jagnikjen
Who is the Lamb? - rachelindeedArt is a little trickier. We have four artworks in the round, (three BBC, one ACD) six prospective creators, and none of the recipients of art eliminate themselves by having offered to create it. On the other hand, of the

Re: Audiovisual deductions

[sanguinity]

...you are going to come back and make your prose guesses, right? It always entertains me to watch you try to be sneaky.

Re: Audiovisual deductions

[graycardinal]

Working on it. That said -- one hardly needs to practice misdirection when one hasn't been tagged for anything to this point. Give me something to work with, now, and I'll see what I can do.... :-)

Re: Audiovisual deductions

[sanguinity]

I would if I could, but it was barely sporting last round, I knew so many things. It's definitely not sporting this round.

[venusinthenight]

I also think sanguinity did that epic fanvid.

[sanguinity]

You think correctly, congratulations!

Would you enjoy prompting a vidlet? It's part of the party for me to offer a treat to people who guess me correctly, and as you might imagine, I have a LOT more source and lists-of-cool-things-that-might-work-in-a-vid than I managed to actually use. :-)

So, prompt a vidlet? Topic or 'verse. Nearly anything in the vid is a go, obvs., but I've also got a bunch more stuff sitting around besides that never made it in, try me. :-)