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nakahara · December 10, 2015 8:59 pm

Armed and dangerous:

ancientsgate · December 11, 2015 5:13 am

nakahara wrote:
Armed and dangerous:

OMG I do believe I have to go lie down now, before I fall down. Oops, too late. THUD

besleybean · December 11, 2015 6:28 am

I accept it's necessary for the role, but the face fuzz is just yuk.

nakahara · December 11, 2015 10:25 am

Martin featured on the cover of "The Rake":

ancientsgate · December 11, 2015 12:22 pm

besleybean wrote:
I accept it's necessary for the role, but the face fuzz is just yuk.

Long as I don't have to kiss it (ha ha ha, as if) it's fine with me. Mysterious, dangerous, fits the role, as you say.

ancientsgate · December 11, 2015 12:26 pm

nakahara wrote:
Martin featured on the cover of "The Rake":

English is a funny language. The common use of the word rake is for a garden implement for moving leaves and other debris around.

Although I know what this kind of rake is, I looked it up in my computer dictionary: A dissolute man in fashionable society. Then I found that I'd better look up the word dissolute: Unrestrained by convention or morality. Huh. Not a way I would describe Martin. But whatevs, he looks damned good on the cover. Has anyone read the article, seen the pics inside?

nakahara · December 11, 2015 12:35 pm

ancientsgate wrote:
English is a funny language. The common use of the word rake is for a garden implement for moving leaves and other debris around.

Although I know what this kind of rake is, I looked it up in my computer dictionary: A dissolute man in fashionable society. Then I found that I'd better look up the word dissolute: Unrestrained by convention or morality. Huh. Not a way I would describe Martin. But whatevs, he looks damned good on the cover. Has anyone read the article, seen the pics inside?

LOL, thank you for this explanation. I too was puzzled about "The Rake" since the magazine doesn´t look as if it promotes garden implements....

nakahara · December 11, 2015 12:36 pm

ancientsgate wrote:
besleybean wrote:
I accept it's necessary for the role, but the face fuzz is just yuk.
Long as I don't have to kiss it (ha ha ha, as if) it's fine with me. Mysterious, dangerous, fits the role, as you say.

Actually, I read one very descriptive headcanon about Watson tickling Sherlock´s thighs with his moustache during you-know-what and it was quite.... hot.

ukaunz · December 11, 2015 1:01 pm

nakahara wrote:
ancientsgate wrote:
English is a funny language. The common use of the word rake is for a garden implement for moving leaves and other debris around.

Although I know what this kind of rake is, I looked it up in my computer dictionary: A dissolute man in fashionable society. Then I found that I'd better look up the word dissolute: Unrestrained by convention or morality. Huh. Not a way I would describe Martin. But whatevs, he looks damned good on the cover. Has anyone read the article, seen the pics inside?

LOL, thank you for this explanation. I too was puzzled about "The Rake" since the magazine doesn´t look as if it promotes garden implements....

That's funny, I didn't even give the magazine's name a second thought. There's an Australian tv series called Rake starring Richard Roxburgh, and the main character (as far as I know) is a debauched womaniser, so that's the definition I immediately thought of. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_(character) is another good source of info. I suppose it's an appealing image for a certain kind of men's magazine? I don't know. I certainly don't think of Martin Freeman as that kind of man, though.

nakahara · December 11, 2015 1:15 pm

Martin probably just impersonates such a man (as an actor) on the cover... but yes, he is quite different in RL.

tonnaree · December 11, 2015 2:38 pm

I can see certain aspects of Martin's personality as "rakish." Not in the negative sense. Sly, witty, smooth, fashionable dresser.

besleybean · December 11, 2015 6:16 pm

Sly?
But anyway, gorgeous pic.

tonnaree · December 11, 2015 7:47 pm

SLY
sly, cunning, crafty, wily, tricky, foxy, artful, slick mean attaining or seeking to attain one's ends by guileful or devious means.

besleybean · December 11, 2015 8:01 pm

Just kind of has negative connotations for me...but artful I can go with.

ancientsgate · December 11, 2015 9:46 pm

nakahara wrote:
LOL, thank you for this explanation. I too was puzzled about "The Rake" since the magazine doesn´t look as if it promotes garden implements....

English and its many homophones. Not easy. That one word can be adjective or noun, with multiple meanings as either.

ancientsgate · December 11, 2015 9:51 pm

tonnaree wrote:
I can see certain aspects of Martin's personality as "rakish." Not in the negative sense. Sly, witty, smooth, fashionable dresser.

If you look up rakish in the dictionary, that person is more carefree, unconventional, perhaps disreputable in some measure or other. But always well dressed and up to date looking and acting. I don't know that it implies smart or funny or dishonest at all, more like having a lighter, social type of devil-may-care type of attitude. I think of the Casanova character. Did you ever see Heath Ledger's Casanova movie? Like that.

besleybean · December 11, 2015 10:03 pm

This was more my way of thinking.

ukaunz · December 12, 2015 7:50 am

I was reading a fanfic that described John as having a full beard, so I googled pictures of Martin with a beard to help get the image in my head. Came across this one

Wow. Intense.

besleybean · December 12, 2015 7:52 am

Can't be unseen...

tonnaree · December 12, 2015 2:53 pm

His Richard III beard was magnificent.