tarigwaemir

Lowell House, on the Feast of St. Joseph of Cupertino

This post will be kept private until the authors are revealed.

Asterisks by the ones I'm sure of, question marks by the ones I'm not. I took out [tschun] because it's mine and [panj] because I know that's

zhynchan's.

Edit: Okay, taking out [poi] and [paku] because I accidentally saw

meitachi's screened guesses and realized that those were hers. Actually, knowing that makes it a lot easier to figure out the rest. (Okay, from this point on, I'm not going to edit my guesses even if I find out they're wrong.)

lucathia_rykatu confirmed that I got both of hers right (I inadvertently gave her a heart attack in the process), and so did

readerofasaph, so I'm sure of those three.

[ammist]

aishuu *
[boku]

catwho *
[cansa]

ladyseishou
[don]

issen4
[dyw]

flonnebonne
[fif]

katharos_8 ?
[fimfi]

issen4 *
[funuf]

lucathia_rykatu *
[hara]

zoesque
[iccaca]

lucathia_rykatu *
[krim]

ladyseishou
[mwanu]

petronia *
[nga]

trixie_chick ?
[onde]

trixie_chick ?
[pemp]

huabot ?
[pyat]

supacat
[roku]

readerofasaph *
[salia]

kitsune_jade ?
[shanti]

ukefied ?
[tano]

orangensaft
[tiw]

katharos_8 ?
[vaef]

svz_insanity
[vi]

trixie_chick ?
[vijf]

flonnebonne
[xoopi]

murinae *

My guessing procedure, for the interested:

1. For writers on my friends list, I'm usually very familiar with their writing style or at least their voice, and I often have "gut reaction" guesses for certain fics. Of course, I often guess the same person for more fics than they've actually written or guess two people for the same fic, but in any case, I write these down first.

2. Then I note down the punctuation patterns in each fic and the punctuation patterns of each author. Yes, I'm weird beyond belief. The three things I look for are how they write their dashes ("--" or " - " or "—"), how they write their ellipses ("..." or " ... " or " . . . "), and what sort of dividers they use (line breaks, asterisks, hyphens, etc.). I also note any idiosyncrasies like using bold text for emphasis in italicized thoughts. The authors with more unique punctuation usage can be immediately discerned at this step. For the rest...

3. I read through their archives more carefully and observe preferences (humor? angst? romance?) as well as favorite characters or pairings. I also look for any tendencies in characterization and potential influences on their writing, but at this stage, I often end up randomly guessing anyway.

Yours &c.