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]

Omg, I can't imagine writing a fic of this length and complexity in snatched thirty minute increments in the midst of your travel and workday! I could tell from the feel of the fic itself that it had been an idea that possessed its author strongly, I think that's part of why it feels so intense, but knowing more about the process only increases my admiration. Wow!!

Do you mind if I ask what about the story didn't feel like me?

Not at all -- for me, it was the transition into romance for Holmes/Watson in the midst of all these discoveries. I consider you a writer who LOVES relationship negotiation, and I thought to myself that if you were the author, you would probably have made them do more relationship work before you got them together!

(Editing to add: Re-reading that, I just want to clarify that that's not a criticism in the least, the romance in the story is profoundly loving, compassionate, and beautiful! And the free gift of Watson's love is so necessary for Holmes's character arc, so ultimately freeing. It's just that, as I said, I tend to think of you as an author who usually likes to linger more on the process of relationship (re)building, so this just felt slightly unusual to me!)

[sanguinity]

Hahahah, I went back and forth on including that kissing scene, I tell you! Because you're right, I don't think them getting together is going to be NEARLY so easy as that. For what it's worth, I don't consider them together at this point. (Well, by the time EMPT is published, there in the last several paragraphs, they're probably together? But not while they're sitting there on firewatch in the dawnlight, negotiating whether they're going to be roomies again.) But the reader is welcome to believe whatever they want in regards to how much work they think these two need to do right now, and how much of a done deal their romantic relationship really is at this point. Ultimately, the story of "how do you come back from this and build something true and lasting?" is a different story arc than the one where they need to get rid of that freaking tree, and that's why I declined to do much with it.

Well, that, and also I HAD NO TIME TO DO ANYTHING MORE WITH ANYTHING. :-P