indecisivesock ([personal profile] indecisivesock) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2025-06-01 10:01 am

Insomnia meme

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).
• Other people reply to you by generating a number from 1 to 10.
• 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.
shakesushi: (79)

Inumaki Toge ( JJK )

[personal profile] shakesushi 2025-06-01 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
streetlevel: (Default)

Matthew Murdock | Daredevil | OTA

[personal profile] streetlevel 2025-06-01 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[OOC: Crosscanon and platonic assumed CR are welcome. Misfires are also good if texting is involved.]
aspolyhymnia: (pic#16524920)

[personal profile] aspolyhymnia 2025-06-02 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Stella struggled to sleep when Matt was out doing his patrol, she was always waiting up to see what condition he would come back in. She was out on her balcony, just waiting for any sign of Matt coming back]
endsinafight: tfatws (gasp - nightmare)

Bucky Barnes | MCU

[personal profile] endsinafight 2025-06-01 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Canon mates/prior CR preferred <3]
bewildering: recadreuse (020)

👀

[personal profile] bewildering 2025-06-01 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ none of them are what regular people would call "well-adjusted", exactly. they're mostly assassins, lab rats, traumatized supersoldiers-- it's inevitable that they'd have rough nights sometimes.

bob has them more often than 'sometimes', but technically, he hasn't really been off the streets and clean for very long, so he's still getting used to being safe and comfortable, to having his own space and privacy. it's too quiet sometimes, and he still can't help but sleep lightly, waiting for the other shoe to drop or for someone to tell him that it was all a joke and he doesn't belong here.

he doesn't really mean to be suspicious, it's just.. hard to kick that lifelong anxiety.

so anyway, it's well after midnight, and unsurprisingly, he can't sleep again. he'd sort of given up a while ago, and had shuffled his way from his bedroom to the common area and the kitchen they all use on this floor. in sleep-shorts and a baggy, long-sleeved shirt, blanket around his shoulders and hair a mess, he's seated at the island with a mug of tea steaming away in front of him when the quiet sound of footsteps alert him that he's not the only one having a rough night.

he glances up from his mug to spot bucky, and for a moment, he looks a little flustered about it. then he smiles tiredly, nudging the mug across the island for the older man to take if he wants. it certainly isn't doing bob much good. ]


Can't sleep either?

<3

[personal profile] endsinafight - 2025-06-01 17:36 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] bewildering - 2025-06-02 02:03 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] endsinafight - 2025-06-02 23:36 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] maskirovka - 2025-06-01 20:36 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] endsinafight - 2025-06-01 21:21 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] maskirovka - 2025-06-01 23:03 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] endsinafight - 2025-06-01 23:04 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] maskirovka - 2025-06-01 23:18 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] endsinafight - 2025-06-01 23:55 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] maskirovka - 2025-06-02 00:16 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] endsinafight - 2025-06-02 23:31 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] maskirovka - 2025-06-02 23:40 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] immaterialgirl - 2025-06-01 22:39 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] endsinafight - 2025-06-01 23:35 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] immaterialgirl - 2025-06-02 08:59 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] endsinafight - 2025-06-02 23:38 (UTC) - Expand
kratistos: (7)

Sofia Sinclair | OC

[personal profile] kratistos 2025-06-01 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ F/F, 25+ for shipping. OTA gen. ]
400meters: (pic#17759294)

shin | sakamoto days

[personal profile] 400meters 2025-06-01 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ m/m 20+ or ota gen. tl;dr shin is an esper. mindreading and other abilities. if your character has resistance to this lmk or if you prefer shin not do this at all lmk. it can be worked around since it's not always working for various reasons. oh and he's also an ex-assassin, in case your character might've known him through That life. for shin he could be injured or nightmare ridden or his esp is out of whack and making everything too loud to rest.

orrrr maybe YOUR character is the one with insomnia and making a late night convenience store run? since uh that's his official job now!

more info/permissions, opt-in/out, etc on his journal. ]
vestments: (marc: 45)

marc spector, marvel comics.

[personal profile] vestments 2025-06-01 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
( info, prefs, cw. )
modification: (Default)

viktor | arcane | ota

[personal profile] modification 2025-06-01 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ OTA, assumed cr/cross-canon welcome! happy to write starters. likely to be 3 or 6 on his end, but open to anything for yours 🎉 ]
veg: (Default)

sam / until dawn

[personal profile] veg 2025-06-01 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
noreasonneeded: (Default)

Kaz Brekker | Grishaverse | OTA

[personal profile] noreasonneeded 2025-06-01 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
aspolyhymnia: (Default)

[personal profile] aspolyhymnia 2025-06-02 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ooc- I know I’ve been so flaky lately. But I’d love something with these two. I miss the Kazzle-dazzle]
walriders: (Default)

miles upshur / outlast

[personal profile] walriders 2025-06-01 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
knightbynight: (Default)

Bruce Wayne | DC Comics | OTA

[personal profile] knightbynight 2025-06-01 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ No shipping with Robins, but gen welcome. Gen as welcome as shipping/smut period, actually]

(no subject)

[personal profile] knightbynight - 2025-06-01 18:59 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] the_fairest_flower - 2025-06-01 19:08 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] knightbynight - 2025-06-01 20:05 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] the_fairest_flower - 2025-06-01 20:16 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] knightbynight - 2025-06-01 23:54 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] the_fairest_flower - 2025-06-01 23:59 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] knightbynight - 2025-06-01 20:11 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] withintenfeet - 2025-06-01 20:18 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] knightbynight - 2025-06-01 20:23 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] withintenfeet - 2025-06-01 21:36 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] knightbynight - 2025-06-01 23:49 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] withintenfeet - 2025-06-02 01:08 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] knightbynight - 2025-06-02 01:17 (UTC) - Expand
imperfectsoldier: (Default)

Steve Rogers | MCU | OTA

[personal profile] imperfectsoldier 2025-06-01 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Any canon point, gen and 'ship are all fine.]
unclesam: ((116))

as discussed on plurk

[personal profile] unclesam 2025-06-02 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ Louisiana nights are warm. The sky's darkened, leaving fireflies yet dancing. Sam feels as restless as them.

It's been a little over a week now since he's come back to life, and what felt like seconds to him had been five years for the rest of the world. They'd held a funeral for Tony, for Nat, for all the ones they'd lost in all of this. Over a week since Steve had put the stones back where they belonged, and returned to put the shield in Sam's hand and... walk away.

Sam... didn't exactly jump at the chance. The trust in him is appreciated, sure, but the shield is a complicated legacy for people like him, and so once him and Bucky received pardons and were no longer considered wanted fugitives, Sam was free.... to do what?

There was work to be done. The world was in chaos and shambles, and it would fall on people like Sam to step up and pick up the pieces. But he hadn't seen his family in seven years either, and Sam had responsibility there, too.

So, unmoored an unsettled, he'd returned home for now. Thrown himself into work while setting up in Louisiana's hazy, dreamy warmth.

He was still awake now, much too late, when a car pulled up to the house. Sam wasn't unsettled - not a neighbour, he could tell, but few people knew where his family lived, and so he wasn't perturbed. Restless energy still thrummed under his skin, intensifying when he saw Steve emerge from the car. The visit was... neither unexpected nor unwelcome, though the timing was a bit of a surprise. Whatever Steve's motivation for leaving, whatever need he had to puzzle himself out - mirrored, perhaps, in how Sam had fled back home - Sam hadn't expected things to be solved that fast, or for a sleepless night to bring Steve to his door step. ]
notleavingquietly: (Default)

Bialar Crais : Farscape : OTA

[personal profile] notleavingquietly 2025-06-01 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
publicists: (Default)

graham "gray" nichols | original character

[personal profile] publicists 2025-06-01 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ gray is a celebrity publicist, crisis manager and fixer. he fixes other people's problems for a price. let him fix yours. more info, permissions and cw. ]
beautifulshot: (Default)

Lady Nagant | BNHA

[personal profile] beautifulshot 2025-06-01 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kinda jonesing for post-series Insomnia stuff but good with any prompts or canon point.]
chesscaptain: <lj user="skittys"> (Default)

James Kirk | Star Trek | OTA

[personal profile] chesscaptain 2025-06-01 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
royalist: (102)

will; metaphor refantazio

[personal profile] royalist 2025-06-01 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
zenless: (006)

wise; zenless zone zero

[personal profile] zenless 2025-06-01 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
ironwind: (208)

aether; genshin impact

[personal profile] ironwind 2025-06-01 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
medicalling: (Sit bed)

Rowan O'Cleary | OC | OTA

[personal profile] medicalling 2025-06-01 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Likely unable to sleep because of work, or maybe just missing home and/or others of his kind. Could be either the person come upon or the person that comes upon someone else.]
pyonpyon: sphere of azure mystery (pic#15286846)

nito nazuna | ensemble stars! | ota

[personal profile] pyonpyon 2025-06-01 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
bistate: (2)

Miles Miller | Bad Times at the El Royale | ota

[personal profile] bistate 2025-06-01 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Partial to 5, 6, and 9 on his end, but he's easy to rope into just about anything for the other party. The hotel is also an easy setting as excuses for paths to cross go (storm just knocked out the power and he's going around with flashlights, bumping into each other by a vending machine, if one is wanting a drink it is in fact technically supposed to be him bartending, etc), but I'm just as happy tossing him somewhere else, an alternate location or canon, fake jamjar, so on. Crosscanon/assumed cr/aus beloved. ]
roguelife: (Default)

Astarion Ancunín | Baldur's Gate 3 | OTA

[personal profile] roguelife 2025-06-01 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
littlewitch: (wXPPwp3shithouse)

wanda maximoff, mcu.

[personal profile] littlewitch 2025-06-01 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
catholica: (matt-s1-079)

matt murdock — mcu

[personal profile] catholica 2025-06-01 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)

Page 1 of 8