[ SECRET POST #2193 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2193 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[GunnerKrigg Court]


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02.
[The Avengers]


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03.
[French & Saunders]


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04.
[X-Men/Marvel Universe]


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05.
[Tron: Uprising]


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06.
[Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman]


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07.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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08.
[The X-Files/Fox Mulder]


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09.
[Homestuck]


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10.
[True Grit]


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11.
[Saya no Uta]


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12.
[The Silmarillion]


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13.
[Homestuck]


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14.
[Supernatural]


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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I would have guessed 40. I was quite surprised he's 50, actually.

[brooms]

...i'm starting to wonder if maybe this is a matter of ppl living in places where they age poorly, tbh? because like. he does not look anywhere near early 40s to me, let alone 30, like someone above suggested.

i mean. robert downey junior is 47. christian bale is 38. so is leo dicaprio. just to name a few A-listers.

eta: omg, TOM CRUISE. tom couch cruise is 50, and pitt is 49!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, for some reason he looks younger than Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt to me. I mean don't get me wrong, Pitt is gorgeous, but he still look aged. Something about Clark Gregg looks too...smooth or something. He doesn't look very aged.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Yeah, I wouldn't have called RDJ's age either. Maybe Tom Cruise and Pitt are looking their age, but I'm actually pretty bad at this. Everyone looks either 15, 30, or 80 to me. :/

[kallanda_lee]

I just think that Hollywood stars don't quite age the same as your average person, and a lot of them get a bit of "help" on that, be it personal trainers, top-notch beauty products or even a nip and tuck.

And that discounting movie magic: the right make-up, lighting etc.

RDJ does not look like your average near-50 year old to me, nor do Pitt or Cruise. If only by their lack of grey. Hell, I started to have grey hair in my late twenties.

People usually estimate me about 5 years younger that I am, but I still couldn't compete with a Hollywood star, really.

As for 5O-year-olds, I know a bunch of them who really look like homely grandparents.

[brooms]

I just think that Hollywood stars don't quite age the same as your average person

no denying it. and clark gregg still looks very much his age to me. by any standard, h'wood or average.

receding hairlines are unkind.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe that's the thing? In my family the men start to go bald pretty early, so maybe some people see receding hairline and think "old" whereas I see it and it doesn't really ring as anything specific with age.

[brooms]

maybe. perusing google images, tho, i think he'd still look very much like a middle-aged soccer dad from head to toe to me even he got hair plugs.

[kamino_neko]

Yeah, he's got more hair at 50 than my father did in his late 20s, when I was a kid. (Meanwhile, both my grandfathers, who died at 65 and 80-something, both had full heads of hair right to the end.) And he's about on par with one of the guys I went to school with, when I last saw him 3-4 years ago (I'm 35).

Hell, I knew a guy whose hairline was receding rapidly in high school.

He's also got less grey hair than almost anyone I know, young or old. (Except for one 60-odd year old, who's got purple hair. Yep, an aged punk chick, who never gave it up!)

[kallanda_lee]

I'd have guessed 40-something as some of the anons above.45 maybe, not 50. Both my ex and my current bf had receding hairlines since their 20's, so I don't necessarily associate it with middle age. But age is sometimes a difficult thing to grasp, and I find that the bigger the age gap between me and a person, the harder it becomes to guess.

[nyxelestia]

Huh. I thought Clark Gregg was late 30s/early 40s until I looked him up. I was quite surprised to find out he's pushing 50. o.O

[(Anonymous)]

... the fuck. Are you serious?

"ppl living in places where they age poorly" = any place that isn't Hollywood where rich people spend lots of money on plastic surgery, skin treatments, make-up and also have the benefit of nice lighting and movie magic.

All the people you named aren't representative of their ages. Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are not what 50 looks like in real life.

[nyxelestia]

People age different in different places, due to things like local climate, ethnicity, national baseline health levels, ect. i.e. in a very sunny region, skin will be a very good indicator of age. In places with less sun (or where it's otherwise common for people to not get much sun exposure in their life), skin won't tell you as much about someone's age, so you might rely more on hair, which might be consistent in one population (i.e. starts to recede at a certain age in most people, or go gray, or a host of other things), but might be more random in another one, and thus less reliable.

And all of this is before you get into the wide availability of things like make-up, moisturizer, and hair-dye. (Not the expensive kinds celebrities use, just regular supermarket varieties).

[kamino_neko]

Yeah, RDjr looks probably 10 years younger than he is. Bale, I think, looks his age, and DiCaprio, too. Handsome men, yes, but handsome men who are pushing 40. Though Bale, I have the weirdest impression he's actually older than that - more than 2 or 3 years older than me, anyway - probably American Psycho's fault...he came across way older there than he was.

Cruise, again, I'd probably guess was in his early 40s, if I didn't know better based on knowing his career...Pitt, I don't think I've seen recently so I can't guess his age.

Gregg, Downy, and Cruise have aged very well, indeed (as has Johnny Depp, for a famous example of just this), but that just goes to show there's a large population of actors who've aged well (either due to the luck of the draw, or by doing their damnedest to keep themselves looking youthful), which isn't a surprise.