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 21 (Baker Island time). 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 holmesticemods@gmail.com.

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.

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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!

Title: Meeting Mr Holmes
Recipient: DeeLaundry
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock & Co
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes & Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: No archive warnings apply
Summary:
”You say that, mate, but you told me the other week that your brother may as well be the British Government sometimes, and that he’s always been overprotective of you.” John countered, “For all I know, I’ll stick my foot in it and next thing I end up ‘disappeared’!”

Sherlock’s eyebrow rose, but his exasperated face was undermined by the fond smile he was failing to hide.

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A few months into their relationship - and since John discovered Sherlock had an older brother - the couple receive an invitation to join Mycroft Holmes for an afternoon tea. John is, predictably, anxious about making a good impression. But will he manage to do so with the mysterious elder Mr Holmes?

Holmestice gift for DeeLaundry - who asked about what this universe's version of Mycroft Holmes would be like. I hope I do him justice for you!

Read on AO3: Meeting Mr Holmes

Title: Bedside Manner
Recipient: BendingTheWillow
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/&Watson - intentionally left vague. :)
Rating: T
Warnings: mild descriptions of injury
Summary: "The Illustrious Client" missing scene fic. On a cold morning in September, John Watson tends to a restless patient.

Read on AO3: Bedside Manner

Title: The Hologram, the Android, (but not the Trained Cormorant)
Recipient: DW: clearwingedmaven / AO3: LadyofthePhantomKnights
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Star Trek: the Next Generation; Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes (Star Trek:TNG); Watson (Star Trek: TNG)
Rating: All audiences
Warnings: none
Summary: No, not that hologram - and not that android, either. This story addresses the mystery of why we never saw the genuine
Holmes and Watson during the events of "Elementary, Dear Data" or "Ship in a Bottle".


Read on AO3: The Hologram, the Android, (but not the Trained Cormorant)