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you'll like the way we meme ([personal profile] memeswearhouse) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2013-03-26 12:09 pm

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.


myownhand: (➛ in the rain)

merida → brave

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nottheshoe: (♛ Just a small town girl~)

nike crawford marine ♫ original

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heroical: (pic#5235835)

gilgamesh | fate series | ota

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kingofnightmares: (A gorgeous nightmare.)

Pitch Black | Rise of the Guardians

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machiabrella: (feminine giggle)

Do I dare... Yes I do dare. 9 sound okay? She'd be post-death, if you know the canon.

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[ ooc: because I have this thing for having Dahlia haunt people's nightmares. ~ ]
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unmakeme: (Default)

Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow | MCU | OTA

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[[OOC: Available in regular Natasha flavour, or one of her covers. Natalie Rushman's not the only one I've got rattling around in my brain.

I love castmates, I love cross-canon stuff, love gen, love smut, love dark. Love it all, really. Fine with handwaving prior CR or with continuing from other memes or PSLs. Just let me know. ^_^

I don't mind if you want to tag in actionspam, but I'll be responding in prose.]]
adrenalinefix: (thinking)

Mix of 6, 5 and 3. Assumptions on relationship is great.

[personal profile] adrenalinefix 2013-03-27 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Will couldn't sleep.

He didn't usually have this problem, but every so often, insomnia hits him like a mallet, as with any career soldier. Sometimes the images are just a bit too much.

His body was aching, old scars burning. It may just be in his head, but it felt real. And that chalked up another reason why the bomb tech couldn't sleep. It was also cold as hell in here, from the man used to Middle Eastern climates, Stateside was often a bit too cold for his liking.

Sighing, he gets up, socked feet padding to the window, dressed in boxers and a standard-issue brown t-shirt. He leans against the sill, staring out at the stars.

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Rancis Fluggerbutter | Wreck-It Ralph

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Dragonborn | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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09 • RESTLESS

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[ Martin isn't as experienced dealing with so many dragon souls as the Last Dragonborn. Too many memories—of claws sinking into soft flesh, of dragons carving out a piece of Kynareth's lands and skies for themselves—flash through his eyes, unsure where Martin the Mortal ends, and where the Dragon (and a dragon) begins.

Hours of silent prayer don't quiet the thrum of his blood, so he's left to toss and turn in his bedroll, nearly landing on top of Vera, who sleeps next to him. The cave they've taken for shelter feels small, stuffy, but to brave the wilds of Eastmarch at night would be suicide. ]
Vera. [ His voice is apologetic, pained. ] I can't sleep.

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Victor Creed | Marvel 616 | OTA

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[Creed doesn't sleep much, and there's probably coffee made.]
merepuppet: (Default)

Kadaj | Advent Children

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zipzap: (diva don'ts)

05

[personal profile] zipzap 2013-03-26 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ 'Rest.' Trial and error revealed, early on, that they're capable, but not created for this. Sleep has its - he has to laugh - theoretical allure, but none of the urgency of a physical need, none of the fabled reward upon waking. There's only the dull exercise and the strain of imitating a 'normal' body function and... failing.

Failure, he rather thinks, isn't something they were created for either. But that's a different matter for another night, when frustration doesn't drive him to hunt down one of his brother's designated quarter in their impromptu headquarters. Something else trial and error confirmed: whatever his whim, one of his siblings is likelier to satisfy it than to kill him for it. It's a pretty thing. He likes to take advantage of it often.

...like now, when he intrudes on Kadaj without much care for the hour or the courtesy. ]


I'm leaving.

[ Really, one day, he should just say 'We're leaving' and get it over with. ]

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Nuala Silverlance | Hellboy | ota

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sheriffing: (Default)

Emma Swan • Once Upon A Time

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galeforcer: -cabal code goes... (that's not how article 5 of the justice-)

Cynthia ❧ Fire Emblem: Awakening

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crews: (green planets)

Sam, a not-so-great spaceship / original / ota

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catouttahell: (Where did this even come from.)

04

[personal profile] catouttahell 2013-03-26 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Things in Patsy's Life That She No Longer Questions: Ending up on spaceships. It's a Thing that Happens and honestly, she likes ending up on spaceships a lot better than ending up in magical otherworlds full of old ladies demanding boons from her.

Sure, she's kinda useless with the whole fighting invading aliens thing. Patsy knows her area of expertise is very firmly rooted in swords-and-sorcery and while the ship is pretty funky smelling, it doesn't have that weird tang that means magic. Plus, it hasn't even tried to kill her yet and she'd found a nice bed in one of the less funky smelling rooms.

It's just that the bed is really kinda big and the ship is really very quiet in ways a big city girl just isn't used to. She rolls around the bed for a few more minutes, trying to find a comfortable position before giving up.
]

It figures I'd end up on the one crate in the galaxy without anybody to talk to. They just better not expect me to pilot this thing, I have a hard enough time parallel parking.

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sadandsingle: (lip biting)

Toshiko Sato | Torchwood

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impetuousness: (dude)

Spada Belforma | Tales of Innocence

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haplesswisher: ([Neutral]  Stare)

Kamui || X

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notmeanorgreen: (working late)

Bruce Banner - Marvel Movieverse - OTA

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catouttahell: (Plotting secrit plotty things)

02 | Cross canon cool with you?

[personal profile] catouttahell 2013-03-26 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Patsy supposes she should probably just be grateful that the SHEILD-in-this-universe doesn't have her locked up in some weirdo, stinky prison cell. Instead, she's chilling in what is probably the Avengers Tower-in-this-universe.

Which is like. Half exploded. But that's one of those things that goes with the superhero gig, so whatever. She can roll with this and the whole teammates-not-knowing-who-she-is thing. She was always more of a Defender than an Avenger anyway, even if she still has her Avengers id. She wishes that Doctor Strange was here to make sense of it all. Or at least roll his eyes and act really condescending, at least that would mean there was some order in the universe.

Or she could just stomp around in the kitchen of the very-nice-but-somewhat-exploded Tower and bang pots and pans around for a few more minutes. Cross-dimensional angst makes her ravenous and she's 80% confident in her ability to not burn down what's left of the Tower.
]
intemperiae: (pic#3328954)

Sephiroth || Final Fantasy VII

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agentx13: (Default)

Sharon Carter // Agent 13 || Marvel || OTA

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intolerantly: all from <user name=icontherocks site=insanejournal.com>; i have no talent (Default)

Ivona Wolf -- ♠10 -- HoC OC

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Theo || ♥K || HoC

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Gigi Darcy | The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

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Rapunzel | Tangled

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neverminetolose: (Default)

Éponine Thénardier | Les Mis (modern au)

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wieczny: (I'll do something!)

Poland | Hetalia | OTA

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balzams: (Upset ● Tearful)

→ 7

[personal profile] balzams 2013-03-26 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[It was stupid. Really, really stupid.

Latvia hadn't had a particularly easy life, but then again none of them had. There were a lot of broken promises and lost battles scarring his past but he'd been able to rise above all that, they all had. Which only made it all the more stupid.

Things weren't perfect but by comparison they were pretty good. Despite that all the old regrets played over and over in his head like an old cinema reel. Latvia used to be plagued by insomnia, but that was more from stress. Laying in bed, jumping from one topic to another, some of which were barely related, and trying not to cry over it was not a good reason in his mind. But hey, misery loves company! It was just chosing the right kind of company that didn't make him feel worse.

He didn't want to bother Lithuania in the middle of the night, goodness knows he has enough to worry about as it is. Estonia was also out of the question, nowadays he just didn't feel they were close enough for him to vomit all his feelings up at once and like Lithuania he didn't want to disturb him. He could call Sealand as payback for all the times he'd been yelled at down the phone but Sealand wouldn't understand.

So in the end he decided to call Poland. They may not have been the closest but he respected him enough to actually share his feelings and disliked him enough to not care about waking him up in the middle of the night or to direct his anger at him if he needed an outlet. Latvia curled up at the head of the bed with the receiver to his ear waiting for some kind of reply]

ooc [I'm sorry, I hope this is okay]

This works fine! c:

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