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Но самый интересный из моих сверстников -- это Мартин. Он фотомодель.
But the most interesting one [this requires an antecedent I haven't written down] from my colleagues/peers is Martin. He is a model.
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Когда говоришь «модель», обычно думаешь о женщние.
When one says "model", usually one thinks of women.
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Но оказывается, что фотографии Мартина видишь везде: на упаковках шампуня, в газетной рекламе костюмов и во всяких других местах!
... You know. I just realized. In the kidnapped children part of Reichenbach, Sherlock actually doesn't do much Holmesian stuff. He basically does act as CSI: Baker Street. I am unimpressed, Mr. Holmes. I mean, as a plot device it worked because he had that conversation with Molly that was important, but really. ... And actually given that, Donovan's an idiot, because yes, their boys could have done it. It's labwork. All they would have had to do was take what Sherlock pointed out to them, the footprints, and run the damn labwork. And then cross-reference, and it might have taken an hour or two longer but there wasn't anything special about that particular conclusion. Finding the footprints, yes, that was special. Gragh.
Anyway, yeah. And I'm kind of getting to the point where I wonder if maybe I should start pulling sentences from Day Watch or Twilight Watch or whatever Watch book it is I have in Russian to parse, just for the sake of increased complexity and stretching my vocabulary.
And finally, am I a bad person for wanting to write Sherlock fanfic, post Reichenbach or otherwise, solely to have someone ream him out for being a jackass? Maybe I'm just irritable this morning.