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30 April 2013 @ 06:21 pm
Weekend before last we had our State Championship titles here for Agility...two days of three qualifying heats and then the finals if you're good enough :)

Pleased to say my lil Agility Champ did me proud and is the State Champion in her division for both Masters Agility and Jumping - plus defeating all 170 (all heights) dogs to win the Open Jumping Class. She was a little star and gave me all. She's on a well earned break now for the next month or so whilst I head off to Rome and JIB4 and then the World Champs in Spain - so wish I could tuck her little furry butt under the seat on the plane and be running her over in Europe but Australia is just too damn far away from everywhere else for now.

GO MISS SPRYTE! 2013 Western Australian State Champ - Masters Agility, Masters Jumping and Open Jumping
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8 more sleeps till I'm in Rome! Can't believe it's been a year since netlynn and I were there! Check out this schedule! INSANE! And this doesn't show all the Prophet Pass Meet and Greets!

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redteekal
09 April 2013 @ 11:19 am

Some days I feel like I am never going to get to where I am going to because I have too many things to check off my to do list you know?

Click for Padalecki hair, puppies, bastard thieves and chronologicalismCollapse )Feel free to comment away with any questions you may like to put to the guys and especially to Ty even as it will be my first time meeting him :)
 
 
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redteekal
17 March 2013 @ 09:18 pm
I just have to post a select few here...of course ;)
But go check her journal out for the download link to them all:
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There are too many great Jensen ones to choose from...go check them all out!
 
 
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Apologies for my absenteeism - I am aiming to fix that this weekend coming up but in the meantime my dear little siter has asked me to post this:


My sister has just under a week to pass on her Angel Pass to this year's 2013 Jus In Bello Con in Rome.
If anyone is interested please email her asap on nicnacrobat@gmail.com

Please crosspost anywhere else you think someone might be interested.
Communities...twitter....facebook...tumblr.

TA muchly flist! Love to you all....I'll be back soon! Once I get over my vicarious thrills of the Vegas tweets/pics/vids/blog posts. WAHHHHHH!!! I need a waaaambulance to take me to VEGAS CON!!!
 
 
redteekal
23 February 2013 @ 04:53 pm

There I was trundling along .... possibly mildly grumpy that the actual full time teaching thing is cramping my online style somewhat but mostly just still keeping up with the watching and the reading if not the posting of tweets, FB status updates, Tumblr posts and LJ entries.

Up pops this week's episode - 8x15 "Man's Best Friend With Benefits" - great title, seen some tidbits on twitter about the subject/story line and I looked forward to it. I'm also aware that fandom has, pretty much as a general consensus, been rolling around with glee in the plethora of great writing in the last three episodes and I'm thinking that this will possibly be the week that all changes again. But I went into it with very little spoilage and a whole lot of Thank FUCK it's Thursday and I can watch my show tonight.

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I gotta say I loved it. Even possibly a little more than last weeks. GASP. SHOCK. HORROR. Don't get me wrong I did really enjoy last week's but I felt that whole picturesque farm in Idaho thing was a bit of a stretch along with the Stepford family and the always striking me as suspicious, hot farm hand chick, definitely preferred this week's guest star character to last weeks. I loved the Sam and Dean interactions for the most part but certainly felt the creeping of the soap coming back, however that speech about Sam wanting to take Dean to that light at the end of the tunnel? TOP CLASS SHOW TOP CLASS! But I digress. My subject line says I probably should have left well enough alone but I just can't help myself.

Show is allowed to have clunky/lazy writing y'all. It doesn't do it all the time and it does it a darn sight less than any other show but so what if show TOLD us (instead of showing us) about familiars at the expense of Dean's intelligence? Seriously the Boat Of Consistent Depiction of Dean's Genius set sail for me at Swap Meat WHY are you all still so suprised/disappointed? The same applies with his Wha? face at the word "intimate" - except this was purely a comedy driving device which I thought worked beautifully well. Dean's entire demeanour of adorably fascinated mild scandalisation yet insatiable curiosity about how it all worked in that kind of world was very humourous.

Also I'm not sure what has got fandom's knickers in a knot over the whole familiar/bdsm/bestiality/master/slave thing?
Oh wait - show is sexist, racist, misogynistic and perpetuating the endless cycle of minority repression. Here we go with another example of show's epic race fail. I know we all take things differently but my first thoughts were if this fandom's kink memes, Big Bangs, fan generated works on all levels is any indication I would have thought the topics in this episode would have been eaten up. Where would all those University courses on gender, repression, racial identity and representation disappear to were it not for the ENTERTAINMENT world that gives us so much material to discuss, dissect and wax vitriolic about? The way I see it - you can watch in two ways - purely for the entertainment factor (both surface and in depth readings) and then purely for the social/political commentary. I admit I do both, but I do the first one so much more. Once I start pulling apart the interpretations of gender and the representations of sexuality and the portrayal of race I am no longer in 'I watch this for entertainment mode' but in the Reading for Contextuality and Critical Analysis mode. Which I do when I decide to choose an episode to show to my tenth graders - we watch it purely for entertainment first and then on second watching we start looking for the intertextual meanings, the comments on race, gender, stereotypes - who is not there, who does not have a voice etc etc. The show is as easily criticised in this respect as much as it is lauded for it's entertainment value. It generates such intense and passionate discussions, debates, arguments and discourse on so many levels that no matter how harsh the criticism it cannot be denied that it is a success purely in this aspect alone.

Sam's whole speech to Dean re the fact that Dean only trusts himself felt like little brother just having mildly verbal tantrum over Dean's pretty obvious desire to ensure that Sam survives no matter what. He told Dean last week - he can do it, and he's going to do it and come hell or high water he wants to get to the end of it, come out the other side hopefully in one piece more or less with his brother besides him. Sam KNOWS how Dean felt last week but Dean, being usual stubborn ass Dean, is still pushing the let me do it line and as a result Sam decided to go all petulant little brother and just throw some pretty reaching accusations at him (I felt this at the time Sam was saying the lines re Dean being the only one Dean trusts - since he did say "It's not that you don't trust me...") like he was pressing for a blow up or something but not hearting his words at all. That's why when at the end of that speech I didn't feel anything like the usual turmoil when the brother's fight - this wasn't a fight, this was just venting and I'm half surprised Sam didn't poke his tongue out at the end of "Are you done?" "I'm done if you are" :PPPP. I knew that car speech was on the cards at the end of this as this was just a little brotherly spat only semi more serious than the very earnest Stooge bickering at the start!

So whilst there was a line or two or clunkiness I felt this episode overall had a good story - they needed motivation for the witch to hate James just that much and they certainly found it - good acting and was beautifully shot. I certainly loved it more than a few others from this season that's for sure. But I sure do hope we get to see them in the MOLBC again soon.

Oh and by the way - The Dobermanns used were indeed GORGEOUS! But don't you think they look cuter like this?

I think if the Dobies could choose they would say yes please to this look, I'd rather you didn't slice off my ears and tails thanks :)



 
 
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DOES THIS NOT SAY IT ALL?? Dean in the comfy slippers, the soft and yet very stylishly chic Men Of Letters bath robe  brandishing the scimitar like he's some Eastern mystic swordsman and Sam getting his complete geeky love on?

So here I am THREE EPISODES in a row saying "Well...my favourite part WAS EVERYTHING!"
8x13 'Everybody Hates Hitler' JUST BRILLIANT!

There was not a single second or moment where I caught myself going "Whaaaaaaa?!?!?!?!" I am so in love with the idea of Sammy being a Men Of Letters guy, with Dean contentedly soaking up all the happy feelings he gets with the idea that the MOLBC (Men of Letters Bat Cave) could actually be a safe and comfortable home base for them that the Nazi Necromancers aka the Thul and the very awesome Golem probably took second place in my fascination stakes this episode. But not by far. ash48 has articulated beautifully everything I loved about this episode so go read her review. I'm about to go rewatch for the 4th time ;)

 
 
redteekal
08 February 2013 @ 10:51 pm



This is my boy Cypher. Lying on the tiles at home waiting for me to get home from work. This photo was texted to me by my sister.
I think I was out the classroom and on the way home within 15 mins of getting this text. I think I'm gonna convince the Principal he'd be excellent at behaviour management if only I could bring him to work each day.
 
 
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I'd like to point out this is my 3rd attempt to post to my journal - LJ you are NOT endearing yourself to me lately...

Cliff Notes:
  • Went back to work
  • Watched Supernatural 8.12 As Time Goes By (which by the way Harry Nilsson does the best version and I remember my Dad whistling this tune often as I grew up. I need to ask what he knows about the Men of Letters...;) )
  • I squeed ALL OVER THE PLACE. And then started wishing and hoping that perhaps a Men Of Letters series would be a fantastic off shoot series that may go a little way to fill the gaping chasm that will be the hole left in my viewing career once SPN finishes.
  • Then got my online sharing of the squee with everyone else curtailed severely by the fact that I have started back at work. *this made me grumpy*
  • Trying to catch up on weekend.
  • Watched the Thriftshop vid by deirdre-c (WHO I WOULD HAVE LINKED HERE BUT APPARENTLY LJ IS NOT LETTING ME POST ANYTHING WITH LINKS!!)
  • Immediately (well attempted immediately thwarted by LJ shenanigans) post to LJ

Seriously go watch this: THRIFTSHOP BY DEIRDRE-C. Umm. Perhaps just copy paste her user name and go to her journal LJ keeps giving me this message:

Error Client error: Sorry, there was a problem with content of the entry

So I'm removing links to see if that helps

Leave her some love there for her wickedly entertaining sense of humour and mad vidding skills.

ALSO! Highlight of the week:TOM WELLING HAS A JOB!!! (Check my Tweets out if you want the link - due to LJ asshattery right now) There is hope for a gorgeous 30 something guy with good looks and talent who has finished a successful TV series in the sci fi genre that went for ten years!!

I leave you with....


Oh and...


And maybe just this one as well...

I have to say Dean is rivalling his brother's plaid wearing style these days...
 
 
 
redteekal
17 January 2013 @ 09:21 pm
There's a few spoilery words below but mostly just pictures and gifs as I feel words are not going to be enough for me right now...
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