yuletide | 2021 Yuletide Promo Post

Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Here's where you get those eyes on your fandoms for sign ups!

Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

Suggested form to use:

FANDOM NAME:
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT:
WHERE CAN I FIND IT (optional):

(Bonus optional: What are you thinking of requesting for this?)

EDIT:

Useful tips (Not required, but helps people if they want to engage with your fandom!):

- Mention what form of media the canon is. Is it a comic miniseries? Is it a twenty season tv show? Is it a book? Is it a twitter feed?
- Is it standalone or part of a series?
- It's best to make each fandom its own entry with its own title in the subject line! That makes it easier for people to find/see what you're promoting! Don't worry about 'spam', that is the entire point of this entry and you're using it exactly as intended.

For reference, last year's promo post!

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FANDOM NAME: The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT:

Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers. The Westing Game is a children's mystery novel that asks the question: who took Sam Westing's life?

It is the late 1970s in Wisconsin. Industrialist Sam Westing has been found dead in his mansion, after living as a recluse for years. In his will, he designated sixteen heirs, all of whom had just recently been recruited to live in Sunset Towers by Barney Northrup.

There was no such person as Barney Northrup.

Westing's purpose? He believed that one of his heirs had taken his life. And so he paired them up into teams, gave them clues, and set to them to solving his Game. The prize would be the Westing fortune.

Who are these Westing heirs? To quote the book:

They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake. Barney Northrup had rented one of the apartments to the wrong person.

They range in age from Sandy, the oldest at 65, the same age as Westing was, who was fired for union organizing at Westing's company (Westing was an American industrialist, after all!), to Turtle, the youngest at 13, who wears her hair in a long braid and kicks people's shins if they pull on her hair. They come from all educational backgrounds, from Crow who dropped out of school at 16 to get married and now works as a cleaner, to Judge J. J. Ford, who graduated from Harvard Law and was the first African-American and the first woman to be elected to a judgeship in Wisconsin (in the novel canon). Four of them are in high school and the delivery boy is 62 years old.

And, yes, one of them is a mistake.

How can you play this Game yourself? If your library doesn't have a copy, the book and ebook are purchasable by legitimate means; there's also an audiobook, but I've never listened to it so I can't speak to the quality. Archive.org as well has several copies of the book.

So take stock in America, my friends, and may god thy gold refine!

(I've nominated Westing, Turtle, and Judge Ford. I'm happy to use my 4th slot if someone wants another character included!)

Edited 2021-09-28 00:45 (UTC)

Ahhhhhh the childhood nostalgia! I still have this book on my shelf.

*makes enticing noises about rereading*

What could be a better use of this weekend than reading about our good ol' Uncle Sam and his inheritance mystery game of ~~doom~~ fun and family and friends and profit?

2021 Yuletide Promo Post

The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin

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