Insomnia

[sockfromuncle]

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.

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Roman Godfrey | Hemlock Grove | OTA

[nonholiday]

sha-ming | gnosia | ota

[grovels]

 

Rumi | KPop Demon Hunters | OTA

[denyingit]

[OTA gen, anything more serious 20+ OTA! Castmates (especially JINUS and her girls), crosscanon, crossmedium, assumed CR, AUs, OCs etc all always welcome!]

Matthew Murdock | Daredevil | OTA

[streetlevel]

[OOC: Assumed CR is welcome, as are misfires if texting is involved.]

princess serenity | sailor moon | ota

[transmigrate]

The Creature | Del Toro's Frankenstein | OTA20+

[mercilesslife]

[Doesn't need to sleep much anyway. Good with AUs]

Matt Murdock | MCU | OTA

[thedevilsworkisneverdone]

Caleb Widogast | Critical Role | OTA

[everthewiz]

rain ▽ ghost

[pluviosus]

soldier blue | toward the terra

[firstroar]

[psions]

(There is something to be said about the evening hours when most everyone aboard was in slumber. Jomy is lost in thought, wondering what was to become of those he now considers his people. They weren’t truly dangerous, not really, they just wanted a home. A place where they can live and thrive. How could a universe so cruel decide what that looks like? How can anyone look upon them with horror and pity?

He sighs, running his hand against the cool metal of the hull of the ship. He doesn’t even know where he’s going, lost in thought as he wanders down the hall to who knows where. He feels a lot. Emotions warring within him, weighing on his mind— a constant reminder that he has been thrown in the middle of this.

Maybe he was overthinking this. Letting his emotions rule over him instead of keeping a calm head about him. How could he expect to help if— well, he couldn’t make matters worse.

Sigh.)

Why can’t things go back to the way they were?

nito nazuna | ensemble stars! | ota

[pyonpyon]

[backtostart]

[ Day and night have no meaning when drifting through space. The meeting concluded some hours ago, and most of the crew has retired to their respective sleeping arrangements. It's just Setsu left, still wandering around the silent ship restlessly. It's a rare loop where there's a long pause between warp cycles, allowing the crew to sleep peacefully without imminent threat of Gnosia attack.

It's a little pathetic, that their body can't seem to rest and relax even knowing that. When was the last time they fell asleep rather than being knocked unconscious during warp? It was probably their 31st loop, wasn't it...?

As if by habit, Setsu's feet eventually takes them to the door to Nazuna's room. Even in loops where he isn't present, they still find themself making their way to his room sometimes. Habit, and familiarity, they guess... Setsu's pauses, then, with a swipe of their hand, the door opens. The security on this ship is worryingly lax, but, through the loops, Setsu is well-aware that the crew onboard aren't a threat to one another. This Nazuna is probably aware of that, too, so they don't bother to knock first. That would draw too much attention. ]

Nazuna, are you still awake?

[ They ask softly, even as they peek inside to check for themself. ]

Ilya Rozanov - Heated Rivalry.

[rozanov81]

easthies / witch hat atelier

[retaliatings]

for pluvials

[retaliatings]

[ the warm water is relaxing, and the main reason they have been camped here- spring of hot water with properties that help healing rhe ailments of battle.

this position is not tenable long term, but itll do for now.

it has been a few days since he last tried to indulge sleep. few things ever send him off blissfully and the land of
midland, with the bloodshed and tarnished justice is the nightmare of anyone who ever yearned for a quiet existence. it is easy to become something here.

easy to lose track of the days in favour of keeping track of the fights. impossible it becomes to keep note of the dead, and there are so many as the kushian empire senses weakness and presses advantage. deanreldy is really nothing to scoff at but he would be eaten alive in the face of midland's greed and kushian force. it makes sense that this land borders everything and keeps to itself, the magic that twists the roots here different but potent, and even deeper still what lies beneath the ground.

what easthies has been sent to report on but can't find-or has found and simply refuses to speak on it. some things are best left in the boundaries of this cursed place, where there is no law and no justice and monsters wear human flesh, and witches are burnt at the stake even if they hold no magic.

but those thoughts drift away like the passing stars overhead, a shower of stars the church has deemed as ominous. easthies rests here until further orders.

mercenary knights go where paid, and the church pays; it isnt about his own principles. it's about his punishment, his duty. his eyes flick open at the sound of footsteps and he lifts his head, ink hair curled over his shoulders, damp.

he looks at the unexpected face with the stupor of someone who is inbetween the throes of insomnia and barely coherent as a result of it. then dismisses it as a hallucination or trick of the mind, or the fae that have imbued this warm spring with some sort of healing property.

because rather than startle and greet, or startle and snarl or startle and grab the sword at hands reach, easthies blinks twice, grimaces and returns his head to the pillow of his arms, elbows resting against the rock.

there are still five clockmarks until the men need him and while there are other more important matters to tend to, he can no longer focus on the paper and the makeshift camp tent is too uncomfortable for sleep.

instead, dozing here in the warm spring water would help restore him better than tossing and turning in bed would.

hallucinations aside. cruel. unkind. he will shed twice as much blood tomorrow just to banish this from
thought. ]

idia shroud | twisted wonderland

[powergrind]

Takaoka Sho | Glass Heart

[askedfirst]

Will Graham | Hannibal | OTA

[secondcatch]

Astarion Ancunín | Baldur's Gate 3 | OTA

[roguelife]

Lois Lane | DCU/Superman (2025)

[superjournalist]

Midge Maisel | The Marvelous Mrs Maisel

[doesntsing]

[flippin_peachy]

[ooc: would you be interested in a thread where Midge has insomnia and is awake to witness Alfred having one of his nightmares?]

Bucky Barnes | MCU | m/m 25+ if shipping/smut

[missionreport]

[ Prose preferred. Assumed cr preferred to skip playing out introductions. ]

Mike Wheeler | Stranger Things

[fyreflies]

{ quick links: info / permissions • contact • au info
he's due for some insomnia.
that being said, how about, for fun, i just offer up my entire roster? mains • extras
up to you if you wanna tag them here, or in their individual posts on my journal. just put somewhere that the sleep paralysis demons sent ya.
if nothing else, i hope you had a nice weekend <3}

05 because they deserve a bit of insomnia together

[willtheunwise]

Putting out the mattress had seemed kind of ridiculous when they did it but considering that once upon a time Will had to sleep in the basement with Jonathan he didn’t really want to push his luck and get caught sharing the bed. Not that Mikes parents know about them, and it was probably mostly because they weren’t sure how long the Byers would have to stay during the quarantine and Karen didn’t want to get kept awake until ungodly hours every night like she did when they used to have sleepovers. Unfortunately Will has grown since then and honestly he’s a bit too long for it now.

That’s not the only reason he’s still awake and staring at the ceiling though. He’s also incredibly cold, which is ridiculous because he’s already got a sweatshirt over his pyjamas, and he doesn’t handle the cold particularly well.

The digital alarm clock on Mikes nightstand shows that it’s just past three in the morning and if he doesn’t want to spend the entire day exhausted he really needs to get some sleep but that’s not going to happen if he can’t stop shivering. There should be a crocheted blanket on the desk chair, that Mike had once draped around his shoulders during the eighteen months when Will felt like he was holding his breath waiting to find out why Mike was being so sweet and attentive again. Wills hoodie should also be there. Maybe if he just bundles himself up he’ll manage to get at least a bit of sleep.

Will gets up trying to be quiet and stealthy even in the dark, in case Mike isn’t also having trouble getting to sleep, but manages to trip a little over the corner of something sticking out from under Mikes bed. He freezes completely, holding his breath, as if being totally silent and still can mitigate the noise.

Horropedia | Reverse:1999

[horropedia]

Logan | Fable 3 | OTA

[ridofthethrone]

[Doesn't sleep during the night, so he's liable to pester others or perfect for pestering.]

Eddie Munson | Stranger Things

[satanicpanics]

narita kyouji | famiresu iko!

[missings]