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♥♥♥♥ ([personal profile] fourhearts) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2020-11-12 06:51 pm

calling all insomniacs

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.

vaderstan: <user name=na-i-cons> (360)

ben k̶y̶l̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶n̶ solo. STAR☆WARS. ota

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creamation: (mov 1)

Dabi | BNHA

[personal profile] creamation 2020-11-13 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
bedlams_bard: (basics)

Eric Banyon - Bedlam's Bard - OTA

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sibylservice: (Default)

Phaedra Lamb - Vampire OC - OTA

[personal profile] sibylservice 2020-11-13 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Note: Phaedra's a vampire, she never sleeps at night. But it's easy for someone up and wandering late to encounter her.]
egyptologist: (pic#14443867)

evelyn carnahan | the mummy

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earthshine: (creatine half price you say)

takashi shirogane // voltron

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amelan: (010)

deshanna mahariel | dragon age | ota

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koroshite: (040)

Rachel Gardner | Angels of Death | OTA

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timore: dns. (pic#14444232)

HOMELANDER —— THE BOYS.

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reives: do not take. (pic#11100375)

[personal profile] reives 2020-11-13 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Y'know, I told myself this was one habit I wasn't ever gonna start. And yet —

[ he'd half-expected vought's roof to be empty at a time like this. the other half, well, could only hope. ]

Well, look at you.

[ where transigen wants him, he goes. their deal with the devil in question makes no real difference to a man like donald pierce. vought may be one more cog in the machine, but he's not in it for the politics. he's a loaded gun — they point, he shoots.

doesn't mean he can't stop for a smoke break every now and again — the late hour itself as much of blip on his radar as rice's interest in compound v. it meant about all of jack and shit.
]

I ain't interruptin' any o' that superhero business o' yours, now am I?

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fireshow: fireshow. (Default)

john allerdyce/pyro ( xmcu )

[personal profile] fireshow 2020-11-13 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
( still doing the whole gentle re-voicetesting thing. he can def be the one unable to sleep since he's got a few things to keep him up. could also be the one catching someone up, too. or be woken up since hey i can't sleep so neither can you. canon point flexible, crosscanon and assumed cr cool. )
foul_mouthed: (Default)

Richie Tozier || IT

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manipulatestime: (coffee time)

Number Five | The Umbrella Academy [Netflix]

[personal profile] manipulatestime 2020-11-13 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Too much coffee? Who knows, but he's walking the streets in the middle of the night.]
loudmouths: (🌟 oh man what could happen next?)

asano keigo | BLEACH | ota

[personal profile] loudmouths 2020-11-13 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
youngestrose: (Default)

Margaery Tyrell (modern au) // GoT // ota

[personal profile] youngestrose 2020-11-13 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[m/f for shippy things]
greenthumbliara: (Default)

Liara | Merlin OC | ota

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gyaruo: ([honne] the worst)

Saya Masaki | Neon Sign Amber | m/m

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pyonpyon: sound check (17)

............ eventually

[personal profile] pyonpyon 2020-11-26 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's nothing quite like imperfectly pronounced karaoke with friends from school at a quarter to midnight. It is loads better than fretting over the usual stuff at a quarter to midnight during the weekend, at least. Perhaps something is nagging him at the furthest corner of his mind but that can't be a priority right this second.

The current song ends which results in a lull of activity with the next selection not yet ready. For better or for worse, the volume shift is timed perfectly with a soft tune starting up from one of Nazuna's back pockets. He nearly flies off the couch to stiffly fish out his phone as quickly as possible. This attracts the attention of his friends with varying responses, Nazuna's brow furrowing as he reads the name displayed for him.

His eyes briefly flare in surprise before he can spare a glance to his company. He gives a dismissive wave with his free hand and urges them to go on without him for the next song. No time is given for them to argue, Nazuna excusing himself from the room without another look back. No choice but to leave the building, probably, so he makes a somewhat blind beeline forward.

A thumb flicks over the appropriate button on the screen before his phone is brought up to the side of his head. ]


Masa-chin... ?
Edited (typed saya-chin the first time smh) 2020-11-26 22:19 (UTC)

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russkiy: (Default)

natasha romanoff | mcu

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manipulatestime: (actually pleased)

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Buy you another drink>

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eddiespaghetti: undress (Default)

Eddie Kaspbrak 🎈IT

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sweetestheart: (unease)

mallaidh ashby ღ original ღ ota

[personal profile] sweetestheart 2020-11-13 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
( Modern also okay. )
gunslingerqueen: (Alternate verses)

Nariko Lunae ☄ original ☄ OTA

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[Gen + shippy]
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reguards: (another one for the pile)

Kazuma Kiryu | Yakuza

[personal profile] reguards 2020-11-13 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
(I don't know why but the first thing that popped into my head was being kept up by accordion music because there's some dude doing a rooftop concert or something, so there you go, bakerstreet.

...I'll take other suggestions. ota.)
selfburn: (Default)

Caleb Widogast | Critical Role

[personal profile] selfburn 2020-11-13 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ shipping for canonmates only. ]
gentle_puck: ((m) tired)

Puck/Robin Goodfellow | A Midsummer Night's Dream | OTA

[personal profile] gentle_puck 2020-11-13 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
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bedlams_bard: (passionate)

[personal profile] bedlams_bard 2020-11-13 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
The spell is not a summoning, not quite.

Eric Banyon, elf-trained Bard, has returned to the human world in order to take care of some unfinished business and prove some shit to himself. It's his first night in a new apartment, and he can't get himself to sleep on the unfamiliar bed. So he's taken his flute and some snacks up to the rooftop of the three-story building and he's begun to play, weaving a subtle magic around himself, calling out for a friend.

The spell is not a summoning, not quite. It comes closer to a casual invitation, expertly woven; nothing with true malicious intent will hear the song, nevermind the invitation it carries. There's no coercion behind it, nothing that forces anyone to come, but there is something gentle and sad in the music itself.

He plays the song through three times. Once to make the pattern, a second to set the pattern and a third to bind the pattern. And then, he waits, to see if his hook gets any nibbles.

(ooc: No such thing as a flute cover of Viimesen Kerran exists on Youtube, but that's the song he's playing.)

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medicative: (daily.)

emily dyer | identity v | ota

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[canon and crosscanon loved.]
dicheannadh: (side 3)

aisling o'shea 🪓 original 🪓 ota

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sterilizing: (Default)

[personal profile] sterilizing 2020-11-14 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hello! I rolled a 7 or 9. Do you have a preference?]

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