All gifts are posted: let the guessing begin!

[tweedisgood]

Greetings gentlefans

Please commence to place your bets/guesses on who wrote or created what in the comments to this post, and please also do comment on all the lovely entries, especially if you have not yet had time to thank the creator for your own gift - but generally comment all over the shop, we all thrive on it and positivity at the moment is so very welcome.

Reveal post (and ficlet) on April 1st!

Comments

[rachelindeed]

Oh brilliant, it hadn't even occurred to me that ancientreader might have been the pinch-hitter for this round! Very cleverly reasoned, as usual :) And the concisely sharp, humorous, elegantly suggestive style of "Riddle Me" does indeed feel like her prose, now that you mention it!

And I am beyond surprise when it comes to Sanguinity at this point, so you may well be right about that one as well. I certainly consider her an excellent suspect. There are a few things about "Taste of Truth" that don't quite strike me as Sanguinity-like, I suppose, so I'll wait for the grand reveal to resolve all doubts!

[scfrankles]

There are a few things about "Taste of Truth" that don't quite strike me as Sanguinity-like, I suppose...

Yes, me too. I am honestly not confident about either guess ^^" But we shall see ^__^

[rachelindeed]

Sanguinity has just reminded me, though, that she loves epistolary fic and is currently enrolled in an exchange focused on fics that tell their stories through letters or diary entries...maybe writing "Taste" revived her (wait for it) taste for that genre and inspired her to write more for her other fandoms in that style? Your guess is looking better and better, I think...

Also, as long as I'm diving back into the guessing post: I think maybe Love As Fearful Torment might be Garonne's.

[rachelindeed]

You were right as usual! Amazing detection!

And we both missed Capt_Facepalm, of course, because THE EXCHANGE RULES CHANGED HOW VERY FIENDISH, lol! But even there your instincts were on the trail! Hers was indeed the ack! of a fic writer approaching her goal (while also presumably snickering into her sleeve!)

[scfrankles]

The things is, we were both maybe 25% there. You realised that all but one creation were H/W and therefore capt_facepalm couldn't have come up with anything but her own gift. And I realised that the comment on the mods' chivvying post probably meant she hadn't dropped out. (I really don't think someone who was actually thinking of dropping out would draw attention to themself in that way, but I do wonder if capt_facepalm left the comment to try and make us think she was having trouble with her fic. I am pretty certain she hung back with the commenting to make us think she'd dropped out.)

But we didn't put those facts together because we weren't prepared for that Napoleon of Crime-level of sneakiness ^___^

[methylviolet10b]

Apparently our announcement of the reveal on April 1 inspired the good Captain a great deal. We couldn't resist the request to be assigned to create their own gift; it was just too brilliant an idea. :-)

[ancientreader]

I really, really thought that if I left off the usual obsessive source notes I could sneak past all the Holmeses in this comm, especially since I wasn't even a participant. BUT NO. Busted, as always!

[sanguinity]

Even the scantest author note is enough for these bloodhounds!