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gameofsocks ([personal profile] gameofsocks) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2020-01-07 11:50 am

can't sleep, can't sleep

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.


alittleprince: (08)

young legolas | tolkien

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lacune: (⊗ wary)

squall leonhart | ffviii

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ponike: in july (concerned 🔪 we are the jack o lanterns)

bianca | charmed

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rememberwhy: (Drew_Fuller_in_Charmed_S_06_(45))

feel free to switch up styles?

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[ Chronic insomnia is just a normal thing for Chris at this point. He's not sure how Bianca manages to sleep beside him when he's pretty sure his thoughts are somehow audible in the darkest hours of the night. There were often the times where he was thinking through the plan, through everything that could go wrong and everything that would be even worse if they didn't even try.

Some nights, like tonight, he was just kept awake by memories of before, when things weren't all terrible.

At some point, he shifts onto his side, reaching to brush his fingers through Bianca's hair and knowing that it might wake her -- maybe he wants her to wake up so he won't be alone in the night. ]

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Allison Argent l Teen Wolf

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Re: Allison Argent l Teen Wolf

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[Wanna do something with these two?]

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meredith harlow ( reprisal )

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Ben Solo | Star Wars

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lea | kingdom hearts | ota

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xth_gambler: Luxord from KH2 (Default)

Re: lea | kingdom hearts | ota

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[OOC: A late night visit from a former companion?]
snowgies: (pic#13622138)

elsa | frozen | ota

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[ frozen 2 compatible, but open to any canonpoint/au/crosscanon etc. ]
edes_virag: (Apprehension)

Republic of Hungary (Elizabeta Héderváry) | Axis Powers Hetalia | OTA

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hellhunter: (pic#12483336)

Greyson Lorde | OC | OTA

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[lots of reasons not to sleep.]
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Frodo Baggins | Lord of the Rings LOTR | Canonmates preferred

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daniel jacobi | wolf 359

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innerharbor: (delicious space fungus.)

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Leaving Ilus is slow going. Amos has his hand back, Murphy's in lockup, and the ship needs a fucking ton of repairs. It's all little things, wear and tear from yanking the Barb around, pressure's off in some places and too on in others, and Amos sets a schedule to match it. After the low drag of Ilus, it feels good to be busy.

He's not counting on Jacobi being up at this hour, though. The way Jacobi haunts the central mess seems pretty telling. What's eating him?

Not really Amos' business. He pulls out some nutrient bars from the freeze dryer, and unwraps one to stick a chunk in his mouth. After chewing, during which he considers his options, he taps Jacobi on the shoulder. "Need a hand with the fuselage. C'mon."

And he begins to walk leisurely toward it, bag of tools slung over one shoulder.

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eddie kaspbrak | it

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( voice testing )
retraverse: (013)

the dogsitting saga continues

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[ The Marsh-Hanscoms fly out the day after tomorrow but Beverly feels like the jetlag has kicked in way before that. Sometimes it's work that keeps her up, half-formed ideas for new designs that won't let her rest until she's put them down to paper, or the vibrating nerves that come the day before a big show. Other times it's the dreams — less frequent now after Derry, like the deadlights' grip on her has finally eased, but she won't ever be totally free of them either. Their horrific return to Maine added new nighttime horrors (drowning, mostly; in greywater, in blood, or Ben being swallowed by the earth) and nothing but time and distance will cure that.

Having Richie and Eddie over should ease those old fears. The Losers are always better together and Beverly likes having her friends all under one roof, knowing that they're all safe and okay after years of watching them die night after night (even if she didn't know who they were, then). Still, she can't get comfortable in bed, her mind buzzing and buzzing with what ifs and old nightmares until she gets back out and tiptoes down the hall to check on the guest room like a mother peering in on her sleeping children. Quiet, discreet. The door creaks as she eases it open and she winces at the sound, the hall light spilling in through the crack. It's risky as fuck, not knowing what she's actually looking in on, but she could hear Richie's snores from down the hall so the odds of her catching them in flagrante were fairly low. They did have a lot of wine over dinner and...

Okay. Okay, good. Everyone here, accounted for, safe. Beverly lingers for just a moment then shuts the door before the light can wake either of them (she hopes) and pads down the hall on bare feet — not back to her own room, but to the kitchen. Less restless, still wide awake. She fills an electric kettle and sets it to boil for some tea, then rummages in the cupboards for a snack, plastic packaging rustling. It sounds almost too loud in the vastness of their modern home, but Oreos are more important. ]

YES EXCELLENT WONDERFUL

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AND NOW BACK

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WELCOME

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sorry!!! work ate me!!

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it's ok!! it's eating me too

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lmk about changes!

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all good!!

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kylo ren | star wars

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[ tros spoilers a-ok, but please mark them! ]
jedied: who is the betrayer (20)

4. [sometime between TLJ and TROS?]

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[Rey doesn't generally have trouble sleeping through the sense of loneliness she's lived with most of her life. Especially not with Jakku to compare to.

Still... something's shifted for her recently, leaving her unsettled and uncomfortably awake. She huffs a sigh of general frustration with her own mind, the reaches out tentatively in search of him. Perhaps Snoke had lied about the nature of their bond. Or perhaps that was merely wishful thinking.]




strikon: (Default)

madi | the 100

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wanderingprince: (Together)

quatre r winner ii gundam wing ii m/m

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braidedwonder: (government aid ain't relief)

09 - up to you if shippy or not! I'm 100% fine either way :)

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[ the war was over. he had to keep reminding himself of that fact even years later, when something feels tense and wrong and off and he jitters in anticipation of a mission call to send him out and in to the fray, cackling his way in to and out of battle and possibly all the way through. and yet tonight, even surrounded by the plush of life at a Winner residence, he finds himself pacing.

not quite the manic back and forth of a man who finds himself in immediate danger or need, but the frenetic movement of someone set alight by something even if he doesn't quite understand what that is or why he can't seem to keep still. Duo wasn't the type of teenager or man that was ever completely still - he tended to move at all times, whether it's fidgeting with small items, toying with his clothing or building something out of macgyver like supplies. but tonight he finds himself trying not to pace too loudly, a pack of cigarettes open and thrown this way and that as he takes one and continues his winding paths. there's no rhyme or reason to the way he moves, other than mostly staying outside and away from things that could take on the smell of his L2 cigarettes.

his braid is as pristine as ever as it trails behind him, a key clue to the fact that he hasn't slept at all tonight. ]

sounds good to me!

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Angela Carpenter | Carole & Tuesday

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[Pretty much any of these prompts will probably work for her tbh.]
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