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When I was a kid and went to summer camp, and then when I was a teenager and worked at summer camp, there were always older guys -- talented, handsome, funny -- who dated the cool girls and had this stretch of time when they were incredibly beautiful. Like, transcendently. The stretch between 17 and 21, I think.
And then they hit mid-twenties and started to get beer guts or whatever happens when you go to uni and stop playing highschool sports. I went to the same choir camp for 12 years, so we all grew up together and I got to see the not-so-lovely transformation.
I think the world's divided equally into the people who had that glow-y period in their teenage years and the people who were glasses'n'braces'n'awkward between 12 and whatever (and my teenage years are firmly in the awkward category). Things even up a bit that you hit your late-twenties, early-thirties, and the late bloomers are suddenly interesting and have figured out their own hottness, while the beautiful kids are wearing themselves down to a less angelic and more approachable level... but the thing, the really unfair thing, is that when you see pictures of people (who are now fighting the thinning hairline and the thickening belly etc etc) when they were young and lovely... well. I don't know what exactly. And I don't know if everyone else experiences the same very foolish re-evaluation process, but when I find out that someone who I admire was once downright godly-hot, I am disconcerted.
All of this blather is because I just found some pics of young David Hewlett -- maybe in a Cronenberg movie? and he was that guy! Dewy enormous eyes and light shining under his skin! (It is possible my awe is misplaced and I should be saying praiseful things about whoever did the lighting. But I think it's mostly DH being young and delectable.)
I was all nonchalant about my love for him, since he's solid and comfortable and silly and woobie-like now (not to mention devoted to his girlfriend, by all reports; and far, far away from me). Now, though, I've seen pictures of him being extremely good-looking, and I am weirded out.
Fortunately, just after I found the delicious!David pictures and had to sit stunned for a minute (and this is really not being fair, because DH is a fine figure of a man right now), I found pictures of young David butt-naked, with bleached hair and wearing angel wings. So. Balance has been restored.
And then they hit mid-twenties and started to get beer guts or whatever happens when you go to uni and stop playing highschool sports. I went to the same choir camp for 12 years, so we all grew up together and I got to see the not-so-lovely transformation.
I think the world's divided equally into the people who had that glow-y period in their teenage years and the people who were glasses'n'braces'n'awkward between 12 and whatever (and my teenage years are firmly in the awkward category). Things even up a bit that you hit your late-twenties, early-thirties, and the late bloomers are suddenly interesting and have figured out their own hottness, while the beautiful kids are wearing themselves down to a less angelic and more approachable level... but the thing, the really unfair thing, is that when you see pictures of people (who are now fighting the thinning hairline and the thickening belly etc etc) when they were young and lovely... well. I don't know what exactly. And I don't know if everyone else experiences the same very foolish re-evaluation process, but when I find out that someone who I admire was once downright godly-hot, I am disconcerted.
All of this blather is because I just found some pics of young David Hewlett -- maybe in a Cronenberg movie? and he was that guy! Dewy enormous eyes and light shining under his skin! (It is possible my awe is misplaced and I should be saying praiseful things about whoever did the lighting. But I think it's mostly DH being young and delectable.)
I was all nonchalant about my love for him, since he's solid and comfortable and silly and woobie-like now (not to mention devoted to his girlfriend, by all reports; and far, far away from me). Now, though, I've seen pictures of him being extremely good-looking, and I am weirded out.
Fortunately, just after I found the delicious!David pictures and had to sit stunned for a minute (and this is really not being fair, because DH is a fine figure of a man right now), I found pictures of young David butt-naked, with bleached hair and wearing angel wings. So. Balance has been restored.