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Answers About Murder Walls

merrysnork replied to your photo “The last of Murder Wall.”

I LOVE THIS PLEASE TELL ME YOURE KEEPING IT LIKE THAT

Absolutely! I bought the frame specifically for that purpose, to frame the red patch I masked off when I painted. 

I wish I could remember who suggested it -- I will backread my tag to see if I can credit whoever had the idea, but I think it was suggested in togethertube chat. Whoever came up with it, if you’re reading this, let me know so I can properly credit you with a great idea! 

ameliahcrowley replied to your photo “The last of Murder Wall.”

I feel like I should be knocking on the wall under the frame and waiting for it to open so I can whisper "Swordfish" (it's always swordfish) and gain entry to the speakeasy.

Oh man, I’ve been looking for a name for the new condo and The Speakeasy is now like, easily in the top five I’m gonna consider :D 

wandererriha replied to your photo “The last of Murder Wall.”

It’s like the eye of Sauron. Or a square pimento in an olive

Ahahahhaa it totally does look like some kind of weird architectural interpretation of an olive! 

voyageboots replied to your photo “The last of Murder Wall.”

I love the way this looks modern art-sy. And I also really love the thought that whoever lives there after you is going to view the apartment with a random red square.

Well, I will probably repaint before I sell, so the murder wall would go away (actually realistically if I were going to invest in upgrades before selling, I’d have pros come in, strip the paint completely, and repaint plus replace the baseboards), but I do like the idea of leaving it up while the place is being shown...

coppersunshine replied to your photo “The last of Murder Wall.”

honestly looks a lot more ominous like this

Ominous is never an aesthetic I really aim for but I seem to hit it a lot. I feel kind of like maybe I’m a distant Addams Family cousin. 

innytoes replied to your photo “The last of Murder Wall.”

I feel like this frame could use some tiny curtains so you can do a dramatic reveal

I read this while I was sitting down taking a break from painting and I CACKLED in the condo. If I can figure out how to do it, I might. 

geekgirl76 replied to your photo “The last of Murder Wall.”

Awesome! I'm thinking skip the keyhooks, and leave it as is, but with the museum tag. "Murder Wall" by Copperbadge, 2018. Acrylic on gypsum. A striking look at the vagarities of fate in relation to ones strugles with gravity, colour and the aquisition of real estate."

I’m considering a plaque. I’d like to credit the person who helped fund my paint job as a generous donor :D 

kissmeagainarthas replied to your photo “The last of Murder Wall.”

Well now it looks like a portal into a demonic dimension.

mooseman13579 replied to your photo “The last of Murder Wall.”

And then a red hand forms up from it and grabs anyone that gets too close

All right, creepypasta side of tumblr, slow your roll there a bit guys :D

jonlybonlyfromboldlygo replied to your photo “The last of Murder Wall.”

It looks like an opera stage, sort of ominous and promising at the same time

I was thinking the photo especially looks a bit like one of the weirder Magrittes. :D

antisock replied to your photo “Meanwhile, Murder Wall Junior is looking fly.”

Sam, I feel like you answered this but for the life of me I can’t find it: what is the brand/name of that green? It’s LOVELY.

The color is a Sherwin Williams color, “Relish”, but after picking it out from color swatches at a Sherwin Williams in Texas, I couldn’t actually get to a Sherwin Williams in Chicago to get the paint, and they don’t sell through other distributors. So I went to my local Ace Hardware and said “Can you get me something close to this?” and they custom-mixed me two gallons of it from the color sample I had. 

So it’s Benjamin Moore eggshell-finish, custom mixed to Sherwin Williams “Relish”. Now that it’s on the wall and I can really see how it looks I love it so, so much. It’s just a really nice shade of green. 

banesidhe replied to your photo “Meanwhile, Murder Wall Junior is looking fly.”

It also looks much brighter in there now!!

It looks brighter and honestly it makes the room look about twice the size it did before. It’s so much nicer now that the red isn’t looming over me anymore. 

drgaellon replied to your photo “Meanwhile, Murder Wall Junior is looking fly.”

That is no longer a murder wall. He has been rehabilitated and needs a new name. :)

In my head I’ve been calling it Minty Wall :D 

bold-sartorial-statement replied to your photo “The greening of Murder Wall Senior has begun.”

I thought it was an Aesthetic! map of Louisiana.

Which is funny because if you look at the actual patch, the more I work on it the more it looks like a map of Britain. I need to take a photo before I sand it again so I can show people. 

strix-alba replied to your photo “The greening of Murder Wall Senior has begun.”

At first glance I thought this was a Rothko painting from one of the aesthetic blogs I follow.

Ahaha, unfinished walls being painted do sometimes give off a very Rothko-esque quality to them....

ameliahcrowley replied to your post “Answers About DIY”

My father used to have a place slap bang in the middle of the earthquake zone. During the last serious earthquake I can remember (this was in the early nineties I *think*) his wall-mounted kitchen cabinets fell open and an entire stack of plates fell out, *falling together* as if they had been glued. As they approached the drawers underneath, the top drawer calmly slid open, caught the plates, and slid shut again. It was surreally cartoonish.

It’s kind of terrible to laugh at an earthquake but this mental image is KILLING ME, I am loling so hard. 

vikingelf replied to your post “So today was a “no bookend” day – I didn’t go to the new place before...”

I used extended pole for the roller so I could paint everything from the floor. So much nicer than moving the ladder all the time

I have a pole with a snap-out extender (it...could work better than it does) so I don’t have to do a ton of ladder work, but the roller doesn’t quite jam into the niche between wall and ceiling, so I have to get up on the ladder and finish that bit with a brush. 

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missbuster replied to your post “tanouska i thought it was a carrot nose and was confused by the...”

It’s a stupid snowman and they weirdly cheated the illustration to make it look cooler than it actually is. 

Aw no, I like him! He’s ambiguous, he’s an enigma. A snowman of mystery.  

antisock replied to your photoset “I forgot to post this and literally forgot I had even gone to the gym...”

Sam, I started interval training today so my triathlon runs can be more run-like than walk-like, and I thought of you as I puffed my way through. Viva Vulpecula!

Viva Vulpecula! RUN HARD! OR RUN UNTIL YOU FEEL TIRED AND THEN WALK BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN COMFORT LEVEL! 

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For the Cap IRC fundraiser! Prompt: Steve is laid low by something or other & a post-WS rehabbed Bucky takes over as Cap for a week or so, bitching about it the whole time.

(Possibly not what you meant, but this idea took hold and tickled me...)

“You have to get well soon,” Tony told Steve, voice muffled by the glass of the quarantine room’s door. 

“I’m perfectly fine,” Steve replied. “Superserum superflu is over, the docs just won’t let me out until they’re sure I’m not going to spread it. Another few days at most. Why, what’s happening?”

Tony held a tablet up to the window. On it, Iron Man helmet-cam footage from a recent Avengers battle showed Bucky, resplendent in the Captain America uniform, taking the head off an evil robot. 

“He looks like he’s takin’ to it well,” Steve said. “The uniform fits and everything.”

“Wait for it,” Tony replied.

The scene shifted, helmet-cam cutting to the traditional post-battle meal. The others looked either exhausted or frustrated; there was a constant but varying low buzz coming from somewhere. Tony bumped the volume.

“...Stevie even fight in this thing, it chafes like you wouldn’t believe, my nuts will never be the same,” Bucky was saying, plowing his way through a hamburger. “Who the hell WERE those guys, anyway?”

“Working on it,” the Tony in the film footage managed, before Bucky was off again.

“Sub standard robots is what we got, pal, they were trash. I thought robots in the future were supposed to be better. Can’t you give them tips?” he asked Tony.

“I don’t really think that’s a great -- “

“And another thing, why do the cops always take so long calling us? I tell you what, I don’t like standin’ in for Steve but clearly someone needs to take the police in hand and give them a stern talking-to and Cap might be the -- “ 

Tony cut off the sound, but Bucky kept going on the video.

“He literally never shuts up,” Tony said. “An hour later he was still going. He fell asleep with his mouth open in the middle of a word.”

“It’s the adrenaline,” Steve replied, grinning. “He used to do that after battle, too.”

“How did you not shoot him?”

“Dugan used to slip him a mickey finn in his coffee to shut him up,” Steve said, still grinning. “Bitching Buck, they called him.”

“Please come back and be Captain America soon,” Tony said.

“I got news for you, buddy, now that he’s back in action, my coming back’s not gonna stop him,” Steve pointed out. Tony looked pale. “Don’t worry. I’ll put him on the stealth team, then only Natasha and Clint’ll have to deal with him, and they’re not afraid to drug a friend.”

Over Tony’s shoulder, Bucky appeared at the other end of the hallway. Steve gestured with his chin, and Tony glanced around. 

“Can I come in there with you?” Tony asked. 

“Skedaddle, I’ll handle him,” Steve replied, and Tony bolted for safety.

“What’s got him so skittish?” Bucky asked, and without waiting for reply, launched into a new monologue.

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antisock replied to your post “madtumbleson replied to your post:Answers MiscellaneousSo, my dad does...”

It's got a lot of awkward potential, but you could also do your route as a meetup-style group run? Less event hassle & more "people doing a thing together".

It’s something to consider, but the thing about a small group run is that in order to stay in a group you kinda have to go slowest-scout-first, and I am 99% sure that in most small groups I would be the slowest scout. 

I wonder if I could be like “Hey people who run a 5K between 35 and 45 minutes, let’s do this” because that would bunch us up a bit more. That has potential...

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Thought you'd be amused to know that my four year old son, who loves to watch/play AvAc, started playing a game where I "click" on him and assign him a task for a few minutes. Yesterdays's tasks included "jump like cap" and "read a book."

This is the most adorable thing in existence and I hope you’re ok with me sharing it publicly because I feel like the entire world needs to know about this. I am literally sitting here clutching my chest with how cute this is. 

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antisock replied to your post “I already got one major thing done off of my massive to do list! The...”

Way to go! Productivity goddess, go go go!

Thank you! I definitely started with the easiest thing on my list, but that does not invalidate getting it done! I appreciate your support so much <3 

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antisock replied to your post:

Do you have a good starting place rec for the Winter Soldier comics, Sam?

Mmh, that's a hard one, I haven't actually read much about Bucky Barnes beyond his appearances in other peoples' comic books. :D

Certainly you should start with Captain America v5, in 2005; he appears as Winter Soldier in issue #1, according to the Marvel Wiki, but #9 (2005), I believe, is the start of the Winter Soldier arc. This not only gives us the most recent version of Bucky's backstory (so you don't have to read all the suuuuuper old comics) but is the beginning of his return to comics. It's also a lead-up to Civil War, which is a giant clusterfuck of "what do I read next", but if you stick with Captain America you should be okay. 

We come out the other side of Civil War in Captain America #30 (2007) which is the start of the arc where Bucky becomes Cap after Steve is "killed". That goes up through 2009 or so, then Steve comes back in the Captain America Reborn mini series (2009) and then things get crazy.

For some reason a lot of comics in the 2010-2011 area snap to a different numbering. So v5 ends with #50, then we get Reborn which is a mini so it's numbered 00-07, and then v6 starts with....#600. Or, well, my archive starts with 602 but I assume there's a 600 and a 601. 

ANYWAY, as far as I'm aware (someone, probably Livi, correct me if I'm wrong) Bucky is mainly in the Captain America 600 series up until #619, when Captain America splits into two separate comics: the "Captain America And" comic which continues the 600 numbering, and the regular "Captain America" comic, which starts over again at 01 (2011). Bucky is also in the first few issues of Captain America And (#620-628). Somewhere around this time, he fakes his own death during the Fear Itself arc, so that he could return to the shadows or some damn thing, and the Winter Soldier v1 comic begins. I will admit that I found the comic physically unreadable -- it wasn't that the writing or art was bad, but the style of the art made it really hard for me to follow, so I haven't read it. I believe, however, that this is the comic in which Natasha receives a partial mindwipe that removes her relationship with Bucky from her memory, which was a plot point in the recent Black Widow comic, so it's probably best to at least give it a try.  

Further resources: there is a list of all comics he ever appeared in here, though it's not in chronological order. There is also a biography that cites certain comic book events here. Good luck!