This Week, 6/22-6/28

A slightly early roundup, because my plane leaves in a couple of hours. I’ll be traveling for the next couple of days, and should be back in action by July 1.

Doctor Whoniverse
Gooey (art | Donna, Gwen | worksafe)
Donna Noble, Government Super Temp (art | Donna | worksafe)

Fake News/Strangers With Candy
Why Should I Care? part 13 (fic | Seamus/George, Chuck/Geoffrey, Jon/”Stephen”, Jerri | R)
Tattered At The Seams (art | Seamus/George, Chuck/Geoffrey, Clair | worksafe)
Perfect (mix | Seamus/George, Chuck, Stephen | worksafe)

Fake News
Free Iran (art | Jon, liberal!”Stephen” | worksafe)
Stay, part 3 (fic | Senators Jon and “Stephen”, Sam/Jason, Rob R., Aasif, Scarborough | PG-13)

Next Week in Shine:
“Let’s beat the fangirls at their own game.”

Vintage Lesbian Erotica Party and other stories

A BBC program about the early Doctor Who novelizations.

Speaking of Doctor Who – the Children in Need special looks like it will be freaking awesome. (Spoilers, obviously.)

How to be a more ethical fan. (Turns out it basically boils down to “no stalking.”)

More on-point: The Rules of Fandom (Part 1). These are words of serious wisdom, these are.

Fanart for the planned American partially-live-action version of Sailor Moon, with a link to actual video. It is kind of terrifying. (And looks like it was made in the ’80s.)

Excerpts from a comic that is obviously destined to become a classic: Barack the Barbarian. (Starring Sarah Palin in a chainmail-and-fur bikini.)

Roland Hedley gets meta re: TCR.

“Disney only ever made one movie, and they’ve been tracing it ever since.” I’d noticed a couple of these, but seeing them all juxtaposed is kind of amazing.

Spontaneous vintage lesbian erotica party. Just plain hot.

I was aiming for green…

This is the post with ‘how to help’ in step-by-step format

Fareed Zakaria gives an analysis of what this means for the Iranian theocracy, and how the US should keep doing what it’s been doing. The NYT has some long-term predictions.

Time has a pretty good recap of things that have happened during protests. Deaths on Saturday included an uninvolved nineteen-year-old; photos are circulating of an uninvolved seventeen-year-old who was beaten [warning: graphic]. Also, arrested: a journalist recently interviewed by Jason Jones.

WhyWeProtest will bring you up to speed as far as Tuesday.

Amnesty International is following the human rights news in the country, including this particularly interesting article on how web traffic is defying the government crackdowns.

The implications of the Cute Cat Theory of Internet Censorship for the attempted crackdown. And if you want a way to help but are completely non-tech-savvy, this post walks you through setting up a proxy with clear screenshots.

Some thoughts on the clothing worn by protesting women, as well as the misconceptions Westerners tend to have about women’s rights in Iran.

If you want some mood music, there’s a round of mixes collected here.

And, for a lol, a parody: Ahmadinejad speaks out.

In other news from the region: just in case anyone was forgetting about Iraq, a truck bomb went off there Saturday, killing at least 68 and wounding almost 200.

But to end on at least one bright note: an NYT reporter kidnapped by the Taliban seven months ago has escaped, and made it home.

A non-Green Revolution news roundup

The difference between liberals and conservatives, explained in terms of family dynamics. Or, in other words: Would you slap your father? If so, you’re a liberal.

A documentary about trans people in Iran. Homosexuality is outlawed, crossdressing is anti-Islamic, but sex changes? Completely legal.

And, while on the subject, a collection of links to fic about trans characters. Frequently updated, multifandom.

The shadowy cabal that moderates Wikipedia, and how they dealt with a fight over Scientology.

Gorgeous examples of lighting effects used in website design. The same source (Smashing magazine) also has a glossary of web design jargon, and a guide to using CSS3.

The need for better accomodation for people with disabilities, illustrated by a seven-year-old girl just trying to take ballet.

From the Onion: Reclusive J. D. Salinger brought out of hiding by the new Terminator movie.

John Hodgman plays to the President with analysis of the rise of nerd culture vs. jock culture. (Of course he knows the three types of hobbits.)

Fanworks, 6/15-6/21

Doctor Who
Companionapalooza (art | Jack, Grace, River Song, K-9, Ace, Rose, Martha, Donna, the Rani, Sarah Jane, Leela, Romana, Peri, Susan, Dodo, Liz, and Jo | worksafe)
Doctor’s Girls: The Musical (mix | seventeen companions, one song each)

Fake News/Strangers With Candy
Why Should I Care? part 12 (fic | Seamus/George, Chuck/Geoffrey, Jon/”Stephen” | PG)

Fake News(/Doctor Who)
Four Fics That Never Would Have Worked In The Liberalverse, And One That Actually Might Work Better (fic | Jon, liberal!”Stephen” and family, Martha, Gwen, Ten, Jack, the Master | R, locked)

Fake News
Stay, part one, part two (fic | Senators Jon and Stephen, Sam/Jason, Rob R., Aasif, Scarborough | PG)

Real News
Tell the world how they have stolen our election (mix + linkspam)
Green Revolution (new DevArt ID)

Next Week in Shine:
Our heroes (er, villains) do their best to come up with A Plan.

Website Updates
New poll! Let’s find out how old Shine readers are.

Protests in Iran continue

Letter from an Iranian student.

Word cloud based on the #IranElection tag.

The citizens of the Internet speak.

So does the White House.

So does Pete Hoekstra, who compared the plight of the Iranian citizens to that of House Republicans last year. The Internet brings on the macros.

So does Mousavi, speaking at the June 20 rally in Tehran. Context here.

There’s video [warning: graphic] going around with a woman who was shot and killed at this rally. Her name was Neda. [ETA: she was sixteen. ETA II: Or twenty-seven. More details here (today, 6:55 PM ET)] See also footage of another body. Confirmed death toll is 19; unconfirmed is as high as 150.

Current live thread is here.

I have non-Iran-related links piling up. They’ll get blogged too. Eventually.

They stack the odds, still we take to the street

Currently following the situation in Iran via Huffington Post and the latest live thread at ONTD_P.

That’s a stolen election, that is. And a pretty sloppy one, at that.

A video from last Sunday covers earlier signs of suspicion.

Photos from recent vigils and rallies in Iran. Candles, flowers, pictures.

Marching with the photo of a martyr.

Smashed computers at Tehran University. (Because that will totally stop the Internet from getting out…)

Growing gallery of photos in support – submit your own.

Video stream with 24/7 updates.

More from Reza Aslan – a long and thorough interview.

Rallies and protests are being held worldwide. To find one near you, try here and here.

no they be steelin mah elekshun

Massive linkspam about the protests/uprising/revolution currently going on in Iran.

These are mostly collected from sifting through ONTD_Political’s live threads. Here’s the current one, if you want the latest news.

Already posted, but worth recopying: this post gives the basics, and this fills in a lot of the background, including definitions of terms. The NYT has another recent update with a lot of summary.

The hash tags to follow if you’re on Twitter: #IranElection and #gr88. Some Twitters to follow even if you aren’t: persiankiwi and NextRevolution.

Video post – peaceful protests; destruction at the University of Tehran; police beating citizens and firing into crowds. [Graphic visuals.]

Photoset on Flickr with same. [Again, some are graphic.] Just look at all those people.

And more new pictures.

Rachel Maddow and Reza Aslan bring you clips and analysis.

More background from Aslan.

Descriptions of government-sponsored torture of dissidents, with translation. [Graphic imagery.]

Key aid to protestors, a man who has been instrumental in helping and providing secure proxies for Iranian Twitterers, gets rocks thrown at him. The twist? He’s not in Iran. He’s in Ohio.

Quick way to set up a proxy and help give Iranian protestors safe channels to reach the rest of the world.

More tech background: getting people to the Internet in spite of the government lockdown.

A quick language lesson, including why Iranian police uniforms have English words on them.

Some useful phrases in Farsi, in large friendly script. (I have “freedom” written on my hand right now.)

A brief history of Iran, 550 BC-present, including elections 1900-2005.

Universities shutting down, postponing exams.

John Kerry reminds us that this is about Iran, not the US. (Official Administration policy thus far has been very focused on “This is up to the Iranian people to settle.” Hope that continues.)

List of Things To Do, and Other Things To Do. In particular, some relevant Facebook groups: IRAN, Tell Mahmoud Ahmadinejad he’s full of crap, and Fuck Apathy – Support Iran.

Finally, more places to keep up-to-date: liveblogging on Huffington Post, and photos and news on TehranLive.org.

Where is their vote?

They said the revolution wouldn’t be televised, but nobody mentioned that it would be Twittered.

The people of Iran are taking to the streets to protest their stolen election. Citizens have been attacked, beaten, shot. Some have died, including at least two children. The government is trying to shut off the flow of information out of the country: disabling websites, hunting down protestors by their Twitter usernames, attacking houses with satellite dishes.

It’s intense.

Background information here and here; links and suggested Twitter feeds here; things to do here; images here. Andrew Sullivan and ONTD_Political are keeping tabs on the latest events.

One theme that has come up over and over: The West can’t interfere. The would-be helpful US government has to keep its distance. The Iranian people need to take control of their country on their own.

But we can spread the word.