Mmmhh, I think guessing is very difficult as it is nearly impossible to know every participant's style of writing. And I don't even want to start to whole ordeal of last year's discussion about native speakers again.
So, I really don't have many ideas. I would make a guess for 'The Advent Calendar' but on the other hand if I got it wrong the true author might be sad. So, no guessing for me either.

I'm not familiar with the writing style of people on the forum outside of how they write their posts and that is likely to be different than how they write stories, so I am sure I have little to go on to guess. When I was talking about being surprised, I was thinking maybe the connection between certain authors and the subject matter of their stories have the potential to be unexpected based on what we know about each other as far as interests and reading preferences. I don't know whether anyone will have that experience during the reveal, but it could happen.

Since we don't know what the reasons are, I would prefer being careful with judgements of any kind.

I've tried to participate in the fest by writing a fic, offering beta services to whoever wanted it and reading all the fics and sharing my thoughts on them. It seems in sharing my thoughts I've offended some of you. I heartily apologise to each and everyone I may have hurt with my remarks. To deliberately hurt someone was never my intention.

@dioscureantwins: I think you misunderstand something, you have done nothing wrong, everything is fine 

I just uttered the fear that guessing might upset someone snd silver was annoyed about those who still have not finished their stories. That's all we talked about.

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Oooh, the unveiling of the authors' identities! A huuuuuge round of applause and my deepest congratulations to all participants!

Crossing my fingers the two last remaining fics will indeed be up for 6th January!

I'm about to upload my fic to AO3's collection, and I happened to have written a little more mature scene (still, it's pretty vanilla). Is it all right if I post it along with the rest of the fic? Or should I make it into another chapter?

SusiGo wrote:

Thank you for revealing the authors, Schmiezi. I am happy to see that some of my guesses, er, deductions, were right. And a big thank you again to my author for the lovely story. 

You are very welcome! I actually wrote a little note for you as well which was supposed to introduce the story, but then the formatting didn't work and I probably drove poor Schmiezi crazy with all the back and forth- I have to say that she was very patient (and much more competent regarding the computer stuff)- anyway, so in the process, the note didn't make it but at least the story did, somehow.

I'd also once again like to thank my author for my wonderful Secret Santa story!
 

It was a pleasure to write for you. And, yes, you guessed correctly. The movies are:

The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Death in Venice (1971)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Summertime (1955)

 

Can I just say that I am humbled for the assumptions that Silver, Kerkerian or Schmiezi had written A Singular Gentleman? I adore you guys so much, I don't think I could ever take any other way such comparisons/guesses.

And, @mrshouse, given the era, I thought the Johnlock had to be pretty...careful. ;)
Oh, now I want to explore that...deeper

Oh.

++ Thank you