[black crow]

username: snoob
kalon name: franz
what do they do when they can't sleep [700 word limit]: hmm mark w/ stargazing, drinking tea, going down to the dock/beach??
i look up at my wall clock. 2:34 am. i log off of my computer and shut the lid. i sigh. there probably won't be much sleep now, there typically isn't most nights unless i tire myself out through the day. each time night fades and daylight returns, the extensive light tears on for hours of aches and pains and tremors of fumbling weakness throughout my body. sometimes it makes me stumble with the tiredness. i haven't always been an insomniac, it only set in a couple of months ago when i started seeing my... deceased best friend in my dreams. the trauma of waking up was too much to bear. sometimes i would get cold sweats and wake up with tears running down my face. back to the present, i clamber off my bed and walk over to my window. the stars are bright, and tonight the moon is full. perfect. i slowly make my way to the kitchen, and set a kettle on the stove. i get out a cup and a teabag, and a couple of sugar cubes. the tea kettle sings its shrill song after a few minutes, reminding me how awake i am. i prepare the tea and rop a bit of lavender flavoring in. i stick a lid on the cup and make my way outside. after about 15 minutes of walking with the tea in my paws (i'm not a coffee person) i reach the beach. i'm not sure why but the sound of the waves and occasional cry of a seagull at night are my favorite things, they're soothing to me. [[wip i have testing aaa]]
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[Lorne_Purnima]

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Lorne_Purnima

kalon name:
Ukiyo

what do they do when they can't sleep [700 word limit]:
Ukiyo didn't have trouble sleeping often but she had it often enough to come up with something of a solution. Music, she adored music anyway but there was just something about it when listening to it while you lay in bed with nothing else to do. She would slip on her wireless headphones and grab her phone and after a moment or so the tones would enter her ears. The music would vary depending on how she was feeling, some days it would be smooth jazz, other days it could be classical, and occasionally even pop; she had a love for pretty much every genre but she did usually keep it more mellow for her sleep playlists. Once the music was playing she would close her eyes and drift off, see she wouldn't just listen and fall asleep instead she would let the music take her on a journey through her imagination. She was no longer laying in her room but rather an astronaut exploring the wonders of space, or a dancer performing in a big sold out theater, or even the singer singing the song she's listening to. Sometimes she also placed herself in the place of the main character in her favorite shows or books, exploring even more impossible places and saving many a world. She had seen the whole world and more in these nighttime fantasies and would even look forward to them. She had no issue with herself but she loved how in this process she was no longer just Ukiyo the sleepless Kalon but rather Commander Uki! Or Ukiyo the singer, Jedi Master Uki, and sometimes, just sometimes, "Sailor Uki" but you couldn't get her to admit to that one. She didn't always fantasize some outlandish scene, sometimes if the music was just right she would be laying under a shady tree in a park watching the clouds float by or sitting on a beach watching the waves roll in and out. When doing this the minutes that would feel like hours otherwise would just melt away, as daydreams would fade into actual dreams and often in the morning she wouldn't even remember falling asleep. (360/700)

one art extra [optional]: Art done by Needy <3

[grizzly bear]

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[s a g e.]

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[.~♨Affo♨~.]

username: !~Mara~!
kalon name: Sephora
what do they do when they can't sleep [700 word limit]: Sephora often likes to get up, walk around her house a bit and eventually grab a glass of warm milk, that all makes her sleepy, she will often accidentally pass out on the couch before she could get upstairs to ger bedroom to get to her bed.
one art extra [optional]: ((Will deff make art of this kal, just a w,i.p))

[G.L'S]

username: G.L'S
kalon name: Lucidia

Counting Stars

When insomnia struck, Lucidia tried it all: counting sheep, warm milk, a good story, or some music; nothing seemed to work. On-and-off for months, the chase for fatigue began with sluggish days and restless nights. The worst seemed to be during the winter months; when the wind howled and the air bit too sharply for anyone to go outside. The sun set so early, leaving hours upon hours of darkness with no solace of singing birds or chirping crickets to pass the time. In the summer months, the sun held long and the night held sounds and warmth to walk and enjoy. Almost like another world that existed just in the shift of the light. The winter night felt like a void in comparison: a desolate ghost world.
It wasn't until after she moved that Lucidia found a change to guide her mind to sleep. When she left the city, she knew the wooded silence of the impending winter would be deafening. On one cold autumn night that was crystal clear, she discovered what she'd been missing. Outside her breezeway window, an ultraviolet sky twinkled free of any pollution or obstruction. A picture that begged to be captured.
She drove for hours and was at the closest art store by dawn.
The next three nights, she waited in wild anticipation as a heavy drizzle and later fog set in to fit the late autumn scene. More nights she paced restless and aimless with no rest or relaxation. She wasn't able to sit at her easel until the end of the week when the moon subsided and left the spotlight to the stars.
She doesn't know how long it takes to paint. She covers the canvas or masonite boards with ochres, violets, ocean, pitch, and brilliant white. The first few look terrible she'd admit, but something about mapping the sky calms her racing mind and brings her peace. Weeks turn to months and the winter nights grow longer until the hours of dark surpass the hours of day, but instead of the dread she faced for months, she rushes to the easel in excitement for her final relaxation. When the piece is finished, she turns on a soft piano ballad that she thinks matches the night dancing in front of her. Between the soothing tones and the dark rich sky, she falls deep and sleeps for the night. It's proven so effective, her first art show held the best paintings and played the music throughout the studio. Within moments, she was found seated off to the side sound asleep.

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[redhorizon]

username: Shower_Flopping
kalon name: Amiera
what do they do when they can't sleep [700 word limit]: When I can't sleep, it's usually for good reason. Some nights it's my anxiety, other nights it's the damn insomnia that always follows me like a shadow. Sometimes I just can't turn my brain off, and my thoughts run wild. Everyone likes to minimize it, say it's nothing a glass of milk and a little time can't fix, but they're wrong. Nobody really.. Gets it. They just don't understand. Insomnia is one of those things you can't really understand until you experience it. Sure, you know what it is and maybe you know how it works or why it happens, but you don't understand what it feels like. Some nights when my insomnia gets bad, I'll sit and get myself worked up over this. I get so angry and upset that people just don't get it.

But sometimes someone does get it. Sometimes there's that one person that just understands. No judgement, just pure understanding and.. Support. And those nights when I can't sleep, whether it's the insomnia or the anxiety or some other reason, I can always, always, call that someone. Sometimes we sit in complete silence, with a grunt or a groan thrown in every few minutes. Sometimes we laugh for hours until we're in tears and our sides hurt. And sometimes we just talk. Sometimes it gets emotional and serious and we both end the night crying, other times it's meaningless chitchat that just puts a smile on my face. Erin can do that to a person, say absolutely nothing and make them feel so special, so great, so meaningful. She has this calming property that only she possesses. I can tell her anything and feel that my secrets are safe.

So when I can't sleep, I call her. We talk for hours and hours, we talk until the early morning and after we say our "I love you" and "goodnight," I'm asleep within the hour.
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Wip

[Jaskiest]

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res!

[Avisowl]

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[f1owercrown]

res, she sings Steven Universe songs to her ukulele and watches her nocturnal hamster