Open Thread for Opening Day! :-)

[geekygecko.livejournal.com]

Ready to earn your first badge and start using it right away?  Cool!

We thought we'd get things started with an open thread.  All you need to do is post a least one comment below, and then go help yourself to the one-star Reveler badge on the self-serve badge thread. :-)

You can:

• Drop by and introduce yourself


• Post plot bunnies or other bits of inspiration for sick!Wilsony goodness


• Share any RenFest (or similar) experiences that might have sick!Wilson potential


• Or you can just help yourself to the refreshments, visit with your fellow fest-goers, bounce ideas off of each other, or whatever your sick!Wilson heart desires. :-)

For example, one time when I attended the Texas Renaissance Festival with some cousins, I forgot to read the handout they give you at the entrance because we girls were too busy buying garlands for our hair. ;-)

So when a RenFest sheriff selected me at random to ask what the king's colors were for that year, I didn't know, and got put in a pillory for a few minutes.  It was all in good fun, of course...until the guy started tickling me and wouldn't stop!  I couldn't catch my breath, and unfortunately, the sheriff was behind me and couldn't see my distress, and my cousins were too busy laughing to help.  I was beginning to think I was going to be literally tickled to death when someone FINALLY realized I wasn't kidding about not being able to breathe, and got me out of that darned thing. :-)

Thank goodness nothing like that would ever happen to Wilson.  Or would it? 
 

Comments

[mnstrtruckslash.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone, my name is Rachel. I'm from the Chicago suburbs (Highland Park), I'm a writer but I earn my living as a nanny/Sunday school teacher. I love comic books, movies, art, vegetarian cooking, photography and scrapbooking, horseback riding, reading/writing, working out, science fiction, House (and Wilson of course), anything related to Sherlock Holmes, and I recently got interested in the Supernatural fandom and show. I am very excited about RenFest. I've even signed up to be a page! My shift starts this Thursday and I have all sorts of exciting things planned for us!

As soon as I heard we were doing this, I started thinking about the season 2 episode, "Sleeping Dogs Lie," and how the POTW got the blacj plague from fleas from her dog and how easy that seemed to happen to her. I probably didn't need the spoiler warning but you never know. n season 7, Wilson got a cat named Sarah. Cats can get fleas too (I think), and so maybe House was right to be worried about Wilson's pet. I haven't been able to make this plot bunny work so I am handing it over free of charge to anyone who wants it.

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a great idea! I don't think anyone's given Wilson the plague yet.

I think we'll be a small, cozy group so I might even have a chance to join in the fun. I can't wait to see what you have in store for us...and Wilson.

[srsly-yes.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a great idea! I don't think anyone's given Wilson the plague yet.
Actually, there's an oldie but goodie that fits the bill for RenFest, Quarantine (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9488200/1/Quarantine) by SwissArmyKnife. It's set in 1665, London.

eta: *huffs* Sorry for all the edits. I've been away from LJ for too long and forgot my mad html skilz.

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

That's right! I'd forgotten that one.

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

I didn't give Wilson the plague, but I did have him worrying about getting it in a past sick!Wilson Fest story The Return of Steve McQueen (http://barefootpuddles.livejournal.com/3017.html)

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Hello all! My muse decamped for parts unknown so I haven't completed a fic in years. However! I do have a few partially finished things that I am *crossed fingers* going to attempt to finish up.

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Hi!!

I'll definitely cross my fingers for your muse to return.

[srsly-yes.livejournal.com]

Plot bunny with apologies to Mark Twain... How about a steampunk, Wilsonless House going back in time to King Arthur's court and meeting Wilson, who is about to need someone with awesome diagnostic skills.

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Steampunk Arthurian. Wow. That would be amazing. I love Arthuriana.

[a-single-plum.livejournal.com]

Renaissance festivals make me think of one thing...okay, two things:

Lisa's Wedding (The Simpsons) and "Crap! I'm gonna lose my fair. I don't want to go back to selling real estate!" (King of the Hill, "Joust Like A Woman").

Anyway, here is a plot bunny that I thought about doing as a Halloween story before realizing I don't have the time or the skills to pull it off. I was thinking of a post-finale fic inspired by "The Hanging Tree" (http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Songs) song from Hunger Games and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (but ending with House and Wilson together, whether that means dead, still in the underworld, alive, or whatever someone comes up with).