The Fourth of July Challenge!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_slytherin_girl/]

Hello Campers!

Happy (almost) Fourth of July! It's time for your special birthday challenge! Below you will find three groups. Pick one thing from each group, and do what you do best! Fic, manips, drawings, all are welcome as always. Good luck and have fun!


Group 1 - Typical American Things

-Apple pie
-Money/business/capitalism
-War
-Pop Stars
-Film/Television
-Patriotism

Group 2 - Things Associated with The 4th

-Fireworks
-Parties
-Alcohol
-Family/Friends
-Barbeques


Group 3 - Common Summer Injuries

-Burns
-Broken bones/sprains
-Heat/sunstroke
-Bug bites (causing disease)
-Allergies

Comments

[3rdgal12.livejournal.com]

Parties and fireworks on the fourth of July were as American as apple pie and Wilson had always loved every minute of the patriotic neighborhood celebration as a kid. He’d even been allowed – under strict parental supervision – to shoot a few bottle rockets.

Naturally, when he’d gotten the condo he’d gone about organizing a party for all of his neighbors to be celebrated in a nearby park, even splurging on some bottle rockets to shoot for old time’s sake.

Something House wasn’t planning to let him forget as he watched his friend eat a barbecue sandwich with bandage-swathed burned hands.

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

"War" being under "typical American things" made me laugh. I suppose that is not really funny, but still... (I blame it on the two glasses of wine I had tonight).

I will try this weekend to write another drabble using this as a template. Must. Get. Sailboat. Badge. ;)

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

Okay - I really don't know if I should post this but here goes

Warning - Wilson is a vampire and a bad thing happens





(Fourth of July Limerick)

James Wilson loves eating his pie
At parties he just isn't shy
Take him out in the sun,
and you'll spoil all his fun,
He'll burn to a crisp and just die

[moose-mcmoose.livejournal.com]

Marvellous. More prompts to wile away my Sunday with.

And btw Happy 4th July from across the pond :D

[mashfanficchick.livejournal.com]

Because it's the last day of camp, and deadlines always make my muse come out to play. A ficlet and my second-ever (I think) manip. In both, I used apple pie (Group 1), fireworks (Group 2), and burns (Group 3).

Only Wilson, House thought, as he watched his friend sputter. Only Wilson could bitch about all the normal Fourth-of-July things being too dangerous, and then go and burn himself on a Goddamned apple pie. To be fair, they were at McDonalds in the first place because Wilson had decided it was the safest place to take House for dinner: far away from the illegal fireworks he knew perfectly well House had hidden under his bed, and someplace House enjoyed enough not to grouch too much about being brought there. Except he still doesn't know half the fun is watching him watch me eat. Why Wilson had decided that the summer was a good time for a diet, House didn't know and didn't care. It just meant more torture material for him. But Wilson hadn't been able to resist sneaking a bite of House's pie, and even though he'd tried--it wasn't ever his intention to hurt Wilson too badly--his mouth was too full of hamburger to warn him away in time. The near-boiling filling had coated Wilson's tongue and splashed on his hand, leading to where they were now: with Wilson manfully trying not to scream in pain, and House trying equally hard not to laugh aloud. But even as he schooled his featured into a mask of pure concern, he couldn't help mentally shaking his head. Only Wilson.

(http://pics.livejournal.com/mashfanficchick/pic/0001g180/)