The Official Guessing Post

[amand_r]

Reflections on the Future by Anonymous for brightknightie
Focus to See the Light by Anonymous for Sylvan (teshaun)
Little Blessings by Anonymous for hafital
Racing Those Spaceships by Anonymous for pennywashburne
The Ties That Bind by Anonymous for Morgyn Leri
Home for Christmas by Anonymous for killa
Legend Has It by Anonymous for Black Dwarf
Five first Teacher Duncan MacLeod Never Had by Anonymous for adabsolutely
Prescience is Like Water by Anonymous for banbury
Donald Salzer's Awakening by Anonymous for Wreath of Laurels
Once (or Twice) Upon a Time by Anonymous for Argentum (Lady silver)
The Scribe of the Soul by Anonymous for pat
Now Trending by Anonymous for julie
The Origins of the Modern Watcher by Anonymous for merriman
No Present Like the Time by Anonymous for carenejeans
On the Roof by Anonymous for mackiedockie
Puissance by Anonymous for eliyes
The Taverner's Tales by Anonymous for dkwilliams

Comments

[dkwilliams]

Don't know if my magical powers are working this year - the stories are all so varied and making it hard to guess. I will probably do two posts since I haven't read through all the stories a second time to make a guess. These are the first eight that seemed to jump out at me on first glance.

"Little Blessings" - Pennywashburne
"Prescience if Like Water" - JTT
"On the Roof" - Adabsolutely
"Don Salzer's Awakening" - Pat-T
"First Five" - Sylvan/Teshaun
"Focus to See the Light" - Morganleri
"Ties that Bind" - Killa
"Racing Those Spaceships" - Eliyes

There are a couple of people that I am torn between 2-3 stories they could have written, some that I have absolutely no clue. And whoever wrote mine? Complete mystery so far. Will probably have to use a dart-board to guess that one.

[amand_r]

Ho shit guys, Diana's on the case. Run!

[wreath_of_laurels]

You're doing better than I am.

I am very curious what people will think I wrote. Admittedly I only write HL fic for Christmas so it's not like there's a lot of examples in my case.

CORRECTION TO ABOVE GUESS

[dkwilliams]

I realized that I had forgotten a couple writers, like Wreath, so I've had to rethink. Will add second guess later.

"Little Blessings" - Pennywashburne
"Prescience if Like Water" - JTT
"On the Roof" - Adabsolutely
"Don Salzer's Awakening" - Pat-T
"Ties that Bind" - Killa
"Home for Christmas" - Black Dwarf
"Puissance" - Wreath-of-Laurels
"The Scribe of the Soul" - Banbury

And I am going to guess that Mackiedockie wrote mine, "The Taverner's Tales" because of the amazing Joe factor. She might have written something else - still trying to think that one through.

2nd Guess Post

[dkwilliams]

Okay, going for the 2nd group:

Five First Teachers - Sylvan (agreeing with Black Dwarf and going back to my original guess)
The Origins of the Modern Watcher - Lady Silver
Legend Has It - brightknightie (agreeing with LS on this)
No Present Like the Time - hafital
Racing Those Spaceships - Merriman (agreeing with LS although this one really threw me)

Morgynlyri really confused me but after cycling through 3 guesses, I am going to settle on:
Once (or Twice) Upon a Time

And Carenejeans and Eliyes totally confused me and I am probably wrong, and I've probably missed someone and a story or two, but I am going to say:
Focus to see the Light - Carenejeans
Now Trending - Eliyes

Edit to Guesses

[dkwilliams]

On reflection, I am going to flip-flop Lady Silver and Killa on my guesses

Ties that Bind - Lady Silver
The Origins of the Modern Watcher - Killa

And I am done, gonna stop second-guessing myself

[merriman]

I don't normally guess as I am BAD at it, but I've got the whole day off today and I'm making a spreadsheet!

[merriman]

Okay, I have six guesses so far that feel logical and they are probably all wrong:

On the Roof - Black Dwarf
No Present Like the Time - Adabsolutely
Little Blessings - Pennywashburne
Donald Salzer's Awakening - Pat-T
The Origins of the Modern Watcher - brightknightie
Home for Christmas - mackiedockie

[argentum_ls]

Right, here's the part where I feel very confident about my selections, and then it turns out that they're all wrong because of cascading failure. Tis the season.

Batch 1

"Legend Has It" - brightknightie
"The Scribe of the Soul" - Banbury
"Prescience Like Water" - Julie
"The Taverner's Tales" - mackiedockie
"No Present Like the Time" - Black Dwarf
"Reflections on the Future" - morgynleri

[argentum_ls]

Batch 2

"On the Roof" - adabsolutely
"Focus to See the Light" - hafital
"Little Blessings" - Penny
"Five First Teachers" - wreath_of_laurels
"Racing Those Spacehips" - merriman

[argentum_ls]

Batch

"Puissance" - Pat
"Donald Salzer's Awakening" - Diane
"The Origins of the Modern Watcher" - killa

Edited because I duplicated guesses

[argentum_ls]

Batch 4/4

"Now Trending" - eliyes
"Once (or Twice) Upon a Time" - carene?

And I know both "The Ties that Bind" and "Home for Christmas" for sure, so I'll leave those unnamed here.

[(Anonymous)]

I’m starting off with the guesses where I’m at least somewhat sure it may fit

Little Blessing; Guess: Pennywashburn
Five First Teachers Duncan MacLeod Never Had; Guess: Sylvan
The Scribe of the Soul; Guess: Banbury
On the Roof; Guess: adabsolutely
Legend Has It; Guess: Brightknightie

[black_dwarf]

I just noticed I wasn’t logged in. So here are my first five guesses again. (Black_Dwarf here)

I’m starting off with the guesses where I’m at least somewhat sure it may fit

Little Blessing; Guess: Pennywashburn
Five First Teachers Duncan MacLeod Never Had; Guess: Sylvan
The Scribe of the Soul; Guess: Banbury
On the Roof; Guess: adabsolutely
Legend Has It; Guess: Brightknightie

Final guesses

[black_dwarf]

Okay, I went around and around on these and this is my best and (probably) final guess:

Little Blessing; Guess: Pennywashburn

Five First Teachers Duncan MacLeod Never Had Guess: Wreath_of_Laurels (changing my guess)

The Scribe of the Soul ; Guess: Banbury

On the Roof ; Guess: adabsolutely

Now Trending ; Guess: eliyes

Legend Has It ; Guess: Brightknightie

Prescience is Like Water; Guess: carenejeans

The Ties That Bind ; Guess: Sylvan (changing my guess)

Reflections on the Future ; Guess: DKWilliams

Focus to See the Light ; Guess: killabeez

Racing Those Spaceships ; Guess: jtt

Donald Salzer’s Awakening ; Guess: Morgynleri

Once (Or Twice) Upon a Time ; Guess: Merriman

The Origins of the Modern Watcher; Guess: mackiedockie

Puissance; Guess: pat_t

The Taverner‘s Tales ; Guess: Hafital

guesses

[brightknightie]

"Puissance" > Hafital

"Racing Those Spaceships" > ArgentumLS

"The Taverner's Tales" > Mackiedockie

"Home for Christmas" > Black_Dwarf

"The Ties That Bind" > Killa

"On the Roof" > Carene

Re: guesses

[killabeez]

your guesses are so good! I can't even begin this year, but I'm going to second yours.

Re: guesses

[hafital]

I'm so pleased you were the only one to guess me correctly! :D

Re: guesses

[brightknightie]

I enjoyed your "Puissance" very much! Sometimes that helps me guess. Sometimes not! :-)

Thank you again for sharing it with us all.

[adabsolutely]

I'm not at all good at guessing, but I think Killa wrote "Pruissance."

[hafital]

This unintentional compliment made me very happy. Glad to be mistaken for Killa any time. :D

[(Anonymous)]

Well you would have been the next guess! It was the details on the horses that made me think of Killa.

[hafital]

i'm really stabbing in the dark here. This year is a tough one! Only a few guess, but if I decide on more before the reveal, I'll come back and update.

Once (or Twice) Upon a Time - by adabsolutely
Five first Teaches Duncan MacLeod Never Had - Pat
Little Blessings - JTT
Legend Has It - AgentumLS

[dkwilliams]

Question - when will the reveal be? Just want to make sure I'm available to reply to comments on my story, and I am going out of town this weekend.