Literally ruining lives ([personal profile] memeboogeyman) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2025-02-02 05:22 pm

Too much coffee leads to staring at the wall at 1 am

the i n s o m n i a meme

It happens to everyone - sometimes, you have nights where you just can't fall asleep, no matter what you do. It could be for a number of reasons, or no reason at all. And this is what's happened now: you've been laying in bed for what feels like hours, just tossing and turning, and nothing seems to help. So what's left to do? Get out of bed and go wake someone else up, of course. If you're not getting any sleep, then why should they?


i n s t r u c t i o n s
• Post with your character (note the name and fandom in the subject).
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• Have fun!


o p t i o n s

01 • FEAR.
Maybe you're hearing strange, indeterminable noises; maybe there's a severe storm happening outside; maybe you watched a scary movie before bed? Whatever the reason, you're terrified and it's keeping you awake. You just want to wake someone else up so they can protect you from the monster in your closet.

02 • HUNGER.
Your stomach is growling and it just won't stop. Or perhaps your throat is so dry you could cough up a tumbleweed? Well, you've gone to the kitchen to remedy this and hey, that was a pan that just dropped on the floor. It was loud enough to wake the dead! Oops.

03 • PAIN.
Your body is completely worn out, be it from exercise, battle, sickness, or what have you. Either way you're in enough pain to keep you from sleeping, so maybe someone else has a home remedy or something, or can at least help you take your mind off of it.

04 • SOLITUDE.
For some reason, your bed just feels so empty at the moment. You're feeling terribly lonely and really just want someone to keep you company for a while. Maybe it'd be easier to fall asleep if you're with them...

05 • DISCOMFORT.
Your room is an oven. Either that or a freezer. Or maybe this bed is just really uncomfortable? Who knows why you can't get to sleep, it feels like it could be anything. Why even bother trying? Maybe someone else can preoccupy you until you feel tired enough to ignore your discomfort.

06 • PENSIVE.
Something's on your mind, and no matter how hard you try to focus elsewhere, it's just not going to work. Your body may be tired, but your mind is incredibly busy and it's virtually impossible to get to sleep. Surely, talking it out with someone else will help?

07 • SADNESS.
Something terrible has happened that day, perhaps; or you could just be severely depressed. Either way you're trying your hardest not to cry yourself to sleep, and it's not working at all. Better find a way to get it out of your system somehow; you need a shoulder to cry on.

08 • ANGER.
You are just... fuming. Who knows why - that annoying dog is barking again, or maybe the people next door are getting busy and keeping you awake. Whatever the reason for your ire is, you'd better put an end to it so you can get some damn rest already! Go wake up a friend so you can complain to them.

09 • RESTLESS.
You're far too energetic to sleep right now. Maybe you're just trying to do so out of necessity - you have to be up early tomorrow! But you just don't think you'll be able to fall asleep for a while now, so why waste the time trying to sleep when you could be doing something else? Namely bothering someone else - you're totally jealous because they're getting more sleep than you.

10 • WILDCARD.
Choose one of the options above, or make up your own scenario.
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blitzø ( helluva boss )

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boop

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[ Stolas is no stranger to late nights, but without his powers, he can't open a convenient portal to somewhere he can watch a dying star from a safe distance, or set some minor moons spinning slightly faster somewhere beyond mortal comprehension.

Tonight all he can do when he awakens far too early is wander out to the kitchen with a sleepy series of hoots and happen upon Blitzø standing there with the refrigerator door open. ]


You see, I told you that pop-tarts are not a proper dinner. And neither is anything else you've got in there, I imagine.
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hay girl hay

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[Today, Port 66 is a shithole. This isn't a particular revelatory descriptor for ninety percent of port stations. They are by and large layover hubs for freight drivers, mining vessels, and people stranded between more preferable destinations for so long that they don't count as refugees any more. It is a surprise for the Double 6, a small port who clientele typically is more private yacht shaped than dumpster freighter. Today, Port 66 is suffering from a heatwave. Today, all moorages are closed and traffic to and from the station has been discontinued. No one's going anywhere until the atmospheric systems get unfucked (or they get so fucked that everyone just dies, but that's pessimistic), so everyone better start being appreciative of the hard men and women working down in station engineering doing their best. Otherwise it might get really uncomfortable.

More uncomfortable than, say, sitting in Double 6's darkest and least popular bar, nursing a third drink though it's too hot even for booze, and knowing with a measure of certainty that the jig is probably up. In ten minutes when the bounty rolls update and the communications start going out by wire and satellite, Ralston thinks, a great deal of life is going to catch up to him very fast. A real shame about the port's lock down. He'd had a plan and everything.

He sighs. He drinks a measure of his lukewarm martini. With a measure of sullen resignation, Ralston fishes his hand in under the silver headed cane he'd hooked jauntily over his shoulder when he'd first sat down at the far and goes digging in his shirt pocket for a crinkled packet of cigarettes.

An empty crinkled pack of cigarettes.

And empty crinkled pack that once, if the brand if any indication, contained very expensive cigarettes. So maybe he at least has that going for him when his attention finally wanders two seats up the bar to the only other patron hiding here from the sweltering evening.]


Have you a cigarette?

[Double 6 isn't the kind of place where you offer a woman money in exchange for a single cigarette. No even in its shittiest bar. So he doesn't.]
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[ Oooh I am intrigued! I don't think I could play AU Bucky where he'd be Cap instead, but maybe we can mix the two universes somehow if you're interested? ]

>.>

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excuse the tardiness

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excuse mine, too!

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[ canon insomniac due to constantly hearing the voices of roaming spirits echoing in his head 👍! but he's fine and used to it, happy to help you get to sleep ]
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( since they're both canon insomniacs and capitano literally never sleeps, maybe this is a night where capitano is stitching himself up after being wounded in war from 5.1. or vise versa. or if you wanted anything else in the list, im game. )

cap 🤝 ororon 🤝 the horrors

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