The Taste of Truth: I enjoyed this fic a great deal and was so impressed by it - the creativity, the reframing of events in canon to make everything recognisable but entirely new, and that balance of examining the characters’ feelings but also giving the reader an engrossing story, wondering what’s going to happen next.
Some minor things I noted about this particular fic:
the author knows how to use the DW blockquote html tags. Yes, ok, a very minor thing but not everyone is comfortable and competent with html;
the length. That made me think of a particular author who had written something of a similar length for Holmestice;
Holmes and Watson aren’t written as soulmates and Mary isn’t written as a minor bump in the road to them getting together. Watson has feelings for and is attracted to Holmes. He makes his move, is rejected and… he gets over it, moves on and falls in love with someone else, as people tend to do in real life. When he finds out Holmes had in fact felt the same way his reaction is rather dispassionate because he knows if his life had taken that path at that time, he would have missed out on his relationship with Mary. That way of looking at things again makes me think of a particular author;
and finally, in the fic Moriarty’s work On the Dynamics of Asteroids is revealed to actually be nonsense. This is ringing a vague bell. I am half certain someone has brought up something similar before. And if my memory isn’t playing tricks on me, it might have been brought up by someone in my acquaintance who has a maths degree…?
Riddle Me This, Mr Holmes: This is one of the very last fics posted - the final two being a gift for one of the mods and a gift for an external pinch-hitter. I am going to put forward the hypothesis that “Riddle Me This, Mr Holmes” has actually been written by that external pinch-hitter.
Who could this author be? Well, there is some evidence as to their personality. “Warnings: Nah.” The fic is rather quirky and unusual. Rachelindeed has an extraordinarily positive and emotional response to the fic in her comment, indulging herself in the use of many capital letters. And also there is: “Additional notes to come on the AO3 following reveals.” Calling the site “the AO3” is perfectly correct but… hardly anyone actually calls it that.
And there is someone who isn’t officially part of the exchange but has been commenting on the gifts. And they haven’t commented on this one. I’m going to say this fic is a pinch-hit by ancientreader.
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Some minor things I noted about this particular fic:
the author knows how to use the DW blockquote html tags. Yes, ok, a very minor thing but not everyone is comfortable and competent with html;
the length. That made me think of a particular author who had written something of a similar length for Holmestice;
Holmes and Watson aren’t written as soulmates and Mary isn’t written as a minor bump in the road to them getting together. Watson has feelings for and is attracted to Holmes. He makes his move, is rejected and… he gets over it, moves on and falls in love with someone else, as people tend to do in real life. When he finds out Holmes had in fact felt the same way his reaction is rather dispassionate because he knows if his life had taken that path at that time, he would have missed out on his relationship with Mary. That way of looking at things again makes me think of a particular author;
and finally, in the fic Moriarty’s work On the Dynamics of Asteroids is revealed to actually be nonsense. This is ringing a vague bell. I am half certain someone has brought up something similar before. And if my memory isn’t playing tricks on me, it might have been brought up by someone in my acquaintance who has a maths degree…?
Anyway, I’m guessing the author to be
Riddle Me This, Mr Holmes: This is one of the very last fics posted - the final two being a gift for one of the mods and a gift for an external pinch-hitter. I am going to put forward the hypothesis that “Riddle Me This, Mr Holmes” has actually been written by that external pinch-hitter.
Who could this author be? Well, there is some evidence as to their personality. “Warnings: Nah.” The fic is rather quirky and unusual. Rachelindeed has an extraordinarily positive and emotional response to the fic in her comment, indulging herself in the use of many capital letters. And also there is: “Additional notes to come on the AO3 following reveals.” Calling the site “the AO3” is perfectly correct but… hardly anyone actually calls it that.
And there is someone who isn’t officially part of the exchange but has been commenting on the gifts. And they haven’t commented on this one. I’m going to say this fic is a pinch-hit by