Jenny von Westphalen/quick-witted barmaid OTP!

[whynot]

What is this, senioritis? Spring semester blues? I'm well on my way to being overeducated and dehumanized and it makes me feel spiritually bloated, but also empty. But then I'm like, if these are my problems, then I'm doing pretty good. Don't cry, emo Lass! :(

Writing what I know: I haven't been doing it. Which makes me think hey, what about a fanfic writer AU? Y'know, the one where Morgana is a university student, and she and Gwen have debates over lunch about the finer points of LJ comm posting etiquette ("Post it to a few, sure, but I don't need the damn thing popping up on my flist eight times!"), but they also worry about summer internships and absent-minded thesis advisers who never return your emails on time.

But what show would they fic?! What epic bromantic story can serve as an adequate parallel to 'Merlin', that most unparalleled wonder of ahistorical crack? I toyed with 'Harry Potter' because it's such a mainstay, and Achilles and Patroclus (in which they are not cousins), and Plato and Socrates (in which they are the same age). And then, LIGHTBULB: the show is about Karl Marx (played by Colin Morgan, heretofore known for his stagework) and Friedrich Engels (played by Bradley James, heretofore known for his abs), in the springtime days of youth. Before they were revolutionaries, before the Manifesto and Capital and those horrific beards, they were just Karl and Friedrich, engaging in bar brawls with Prussian loyalists and other such rakish things. They are also trying to win the heart of Jenny von Westphalen (played by Angel Coulby), a young woman of bourgeois lineage whose beauty and kindness ignites both their passions. So, Karl and Friedrich have jealous spats disguised as accusations of hypocrisy! Anthony Head stars as Friedrich's father, the textile tycoon who disapproves of all things non-capitalist and from whom Friedrich steals money to support his BFF Karl. Katie Morgan plays the quick-witted barmaid with a thirst for revolution, and Joe Dempsie plays one of Karl's many former BFFs whom he eventually dumped for being ideologically unsound. It is a show about LOVE and FRIENDSHIP and FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS.

Okay, so that's the show. In the throes of fannish glee, Morgana tells her stepbrother Arthur about it, which doesn't end well because he is an economics student (to please his father) and he just scoffs all over her face. "There are so many things wrong with this, I don't even know where to begin," he says, but Morgana retorts, "You're missing the point!"

"Which is...?"

"Friedrich/Karl, the OTP that ate fandom!" she crows. "Gwen already had to reformat her laptop because she got adware going on sketchy websites trying to find the newest episode. Thank god she backed up her Friedrich/Karl porn fic. We spent ages hashing out the characterization for that one."

"Oh Christ." Arthur holds up a finger. "First of all, I never want to know. Second of all," he holds up a second finger, "why would you worry about characterization in porn?"

"Because--"

"Third of all: see 'first of all'. If you put half as much effort into your studies as you do into historical porn--"

"Stop it, you sound like Uther."

Another time, over drinks, Gwen says to Morgana, "If we were a TV show, who would people ship?" Her favorite game. "I think quite a lot would ship you/me."

Morgana shrugs. "Probably." And tries not to smile like an idiot when, later, on their way back to their apartment, Gwen slips her arm around Morgana's waist to steady herself, giggly and warm and affectionate.

"I can capslock about you until the comments collapse," Gwen declares, and Morgana kisses her cheek, replies likewise.


And I don't even know what these next set of drabbles are. They've been sitting on my hard-drive for an age. Again, I was feeling like I never write what I know, but that I can't write original characters anymore, so I guess these are sort of a stepping stone. I can perhaps call them the 'directionless 20-something living in New England' AU. Perhaps there will be more in this 'verse, who knows.

Weymouth and Tilton are on the same commuter line to Boston, so Merlin and Will made all the usual promises to stay in touch. They call each other, saying things like, "We should chill soon," and "Yeah, man, definitely": sincere but quickly forgotten. Will says he'll get a quarter next time Merlin comes down to Tilton for the weekend, and Merlin says if Will comes up to Weymouth, they can take the T into Boston and hit up the bars on Lansdowne Street. Sounds good, they agree. Then they don't do anything. They call each other less and less, and the last time Merlin had any contact with him was to comment on his Facebook wall telling him he looks like a douchebag in his profile photo.

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Arthur, like many young men of his sort, feigns fastidiousness but is actually the laziest bastard Merlin has ever met. He grew up accustomed to tidy rooms and spotless surfaces, but never quite acclimated himself to a life without servants. His narration of their squalor have an air of orders to them -- "Those pots and dishes have been sitting there for a week" and "The living room floor is getting really sticky" -- like he expects Merlin to do something about it. Fuck him, Arthur's the one who buys the booze and invites all the people over to drink it (and spill it). Okay, so Merlin ends up drinking lots of the booze too, but it would do Arthur good to do some manual labor anyway.

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Merlin stumbles off the train in a haze of smoke. Not literally, but that's what it feels like, in his head. His whole body is saying, "Hey, remember college?" and it makes him feel old. When you're a kid, you think high-schoolers can do anything, and when you're in high school, you think early 20s is already adult. Well, Merlin doesn't feel like an adult. He just feels like a high school freshman who happens to pay his own bills and do his own taxes.

Adults are just faking it. They don't know any better, they just have to pretend like they do. Arthur once compared it to learning to drive in Karachi: you may not know what you're doing on the road, but then you realize no one else does either, and it's liberating -- you can do whatever the hell you want. Well, maybe Arthur feels liberated, but mostly Merlin feels tired. He has outgrown his affections, and he's just waiting for something else to replace it.

Arthur meets him in the commuter parking lot. "How was Tilton?" he asks.

"Same old," Merlin replies, throwing his duffel in the backseat.

"And Will?"

Merlin shrugs. "He's doing okay."

"Did you get the quarter?" Arthur asks, checking the mirror before he backs out.

"Fucking christ, yes, I also got all the texts you sent me about it."

"Perfect."

They squabble over which radio station to listen to, even though it's only a fifteen minute drive back to their apartment.

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"Naw, dudes, for real," Will says. "It was like we were a sandwich, and I was the bread, and she was the ham, and he was like the other bread."

"Did you use condiments?" Arthur says.

"Lots of mayonnaise?" Merlin says.

"You guys are lame," Will replies, as Merlin and Arthur high-five each other.


What has two thumbs and is off to the dining hall. That's right!

Comments

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Haha! I love you so much for this. IT IS SO AWESOME, HEH.

NOW I WANT MOOOORE. *is insatiable*

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

"But how family-friendly is a show about political dissidents?" Arthur asks.

"Are you saying communism is deviant, Arthur?" Morgana demands. "That's only what the status quo wants you to think."

"It sounds pretty deviant when you talk about it," Arthur says, and Morgana supposes she can't argue with him there.

[marycontraire.livejournal.com]

The bit with Morgana and Gwen fangirling over Marx/Engels made me laugh so hard that I'm pretty sure I ruptured a vital internal organ. Especially:

"There are so many things wrong with this, I don't even know where to begin," he says, but Morgana retorts, "You're missing the point!" (I feel this describes my entire fandom experience.)

and

"Third of all: see 'first of all'. If you put half as much effort into your studies as you do into historical porn--"

OH, ARTHUR. He would major in Econ to please is father.

Also, yay college students in New England! We should have buttons or a community or something.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Secretly he wants to go into microfinance, but he knows Uther would never stand for it!

(I feel this describes my entire fandom experience.)
WORD. I feel like this described my sociology class where the only way I could slog through excerpts from Das Kapital was to suppose that Karl and Friedrich made out every few paragraphs.

NEW ENGLAND <333. Oh memories! I am now doing grad school in NYC, but I go back to MA every so often to visit A Boy.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

"There are so many things wrong with this, I don't even know where to begin," he says, but Morgana retorts, "You're missing the point!" (I feel this describes my entire fandom experience.)

THIS.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

"There are so many things wrong with this, I don't even know where to begin," he says, but Morgana retorts, "You're missing the point!" (I feel this describes my entire fandom experience.)

YES.

[fireflower314.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I love this! I'm definitely going to have to go reread it now.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

XD yaaay
I ship Jenny von Westphalen/quick-witted barmaid!

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

safkljdsfkld YOUR MERLIN-CAST-CAST MARX TV SHOW WITH MERLIN CHARACTER FANS IS BLOWING MY MIND

1) I FEEL THE SAME, I LOVE my classes but I am SO SICK of the work already, two weeks into the quarter, I just want to GET AWAY from academia so I can work on more important things like writing fic and writing nonfic and translating!

2) I am really intrigued by this - I've seen fandom writers reach a point where they're writing fic but they're not writing fic, where the characters are just cyphers for something you want to say that shapes itself through them, but you can't quite get away from the characters that weren't yours to begin with. I have wanted to have fic somehow take off into original stuff but it's not a thing that happens :/

3) this Gwen/Morgana makes my heart so happy and yearny! awwwwwwwwwwww

4) SANDWICH PUNS OMFG MADE OF WIN

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

<333! I got way way way too into the creation of this fake TV show, and by the end despaired that it wasn't really real. If I wrote this fannish AU, it would be interspersed with 'actual scenes' from the TV show. It'll be like 'The OC', but with proto-communists, and it will befuddle/enrage the scholars! (JENNY/QUICK-WITTED BARMAID 4EVR)

The fic vs. original writing divide is strange and displeasing! I used to write loads of original short stories, even poetry, but now I'm so entrenched that when I don't have a pre-made POV to tweak, I'm sort of useless! I only tweak, I don't build from the ground up, not anymore. It's a more different way of thinking than I realized, and I'm out of practice. And it's also the gratification of being involved in the fannish community, the communal squee of reaction posts and immediate feedback on stories that are just so easy and fun to settle for. Push yourself, self!

I need original writing prompts or something. At least.

PS:

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

"How many friends have you consigned now to the gnawing of the mice?" Friedrich wonders, amused. Through the window he can see Ruge storming down the street, looking back only to gesture rudely at them. "Sometimes wonder when I myself will join them."

"I suppose when you can no longer steal your father's money for me," Karl replies, pouring them each a drink. "Come away from the window, Friedrich. Let us celebrate the purging of halfwits from our coterie."

Friedrich smiles as he takes the proffered glass. "Am I nothing more than a purse to you, Karl?"

"Don't ask questions to which you already know the answers." Karl raises his glass. "Cheers, moneybags."

"Cheers, you malcontent."

They drink.

[nixwilliams.livejournal.com]

the show is about Karl Marx (played by Colin Morgan, heretofore known for his stagework) and Friedrich Engels (played by Bradley James, heretofore known for his abs), in the springtime days of youth

. . .

. . .

. . .

IS IT BAD THAT I WANT THIS SHOW IRL? IT'S BAD, ISN'T IT?

THIS IS GENIUS.

GENIUS.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

ME TOOOOOOOOOOO. I finished writing that paragraph and went into withdrawal. They probably have to break each other out of jail and transmit secret messages to the Chartists or something. The episode where he gets kicked out of Belgium is probably a doozy, i want iiiiit.

[westingturtle.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD IT'S LIKE CIRCLES IN CIRCLES INSIDE OF THE MOST HILARIOUSLY META THING EVER WRITTEN!!!

Did Arthur once have awkward UST with his stepsister? Do Morgana and Merlin share a deeply hidden secret....love of beanie babies or something? DOES MERLIN SECRETLY FANGIRL THIS SHOW WITH MORGANA AND GWEN AND THEN BADLY HIDE THE EVIDENCE FROM ARTHUR?

Also: played by Bradley James, heretofore known for his abs is my new favorite line

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm not sure, but probably, back when they were teenagers. It was an unspoken thing, and Morgana would try to use it to her advantage and wheedle things out of Arthur by running her fingers through his hair and other faux-casual touches. Whatever: Arthur noticed how Morgana would pretend not to watch him and Sophie when they were going out. It's weird, and neither of them like to dwell on it, though they secretly sort of admire each other in a non-romantic way too.

They looked out for each other and still do. Like, she would cover for Arthur when he returned late from parties on the weekends, and a couple of times Arthur had picked her drunk ass up from parties when she was too wasted to deal. On that ride home, Morgana had said, "I love you, Arthur, you know that, right? No matter what."

Drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts, that's what Dagonet always said. Arthur told her he loved her too, because it was true, because the bitch was drunk anyway. Who knows what she'll remember tomorrow.

"Don't let me deny it tomorrow," Morgana continued. "I love you, but like, in a brother-sister way."

He frowned. "How else would we love each other?"

"Uh-huh," said Morgana, and then she passed out.


Maybe Merlin and Morgana are secretly libertarians. Or, like, Catholic. Haha, what about JUST PUTTING IT OUT THERE and having them be secretly gay??


HE TOTALLY DOES. But Merlin ships Karl/Jenny because "This whole fetishization of homosexuality is kind of creepy and possibly counterproductive. Can't two guys just be friends?"

And Morgana and Gwen just exchange looks, and Morgana just raises her eyebrow in Merlin's direction and says, "How's your badly concealed crush on my brother going?"

"My... What? It's... What? No, I don't have one! You see, this is exactly what I mean!"

But he offers to proofread their Friedrich/Karl porn for physical impossibility and semicolon use.


But it's really because the first and final time Merlin wrote Friedrich/Karl porn, this happened:

"GWEN WROTE IT, I SWEAR," Merlin said as Arthur looked at him skeptically, printout in his hand. "I'M JUST LOOKING IT OVER. I mean, in an editorial capacity."

"Sure, sure, let's see what she wrote, shall we?" Arthur said and, to Merlin's horror, began reading it aloud. "Karl kissed his way down Friedrich's--"

"Give it back!" Merlin demanded, but Arthur danced out of the way.

"--and he arched his back, the breath drawn from him in a strangled whisper: 'Karl...'"

"Gwen won't be happy!"

"Karl, Karl, Karl!" Arthur cried out, proving himself quite capable at jumping over furniture, dodging Merlin, and performing a dramatic interpretation of porn all in one go. "Friedrich cried out, lost in the sensations--"

"Arthur!"

"--Karl's warm mouth, so wet--"

"Come back here!"

"--his probing fingers--"

It was a merry chase, but Merlin managed to snatch it back just as Arthur was reading the line "--could hold back no longer. Friedrich closed his eyes and-- hey!"

"You are a wanker," Merlin informed him, gripping his fic tightly in his hand.

"Now I'll never know what happens at the end!"

"Tough."

Arthur shrugged. "End of the second paragraph needs a comma," he said, and sauntered off.

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

OMG YES.

Also I have to read Marx this quarter and it says Marx/Engels on the sheet and I cannot take it seriously, you have no idea.

Merlin would totally ship EVERYONE, and Arthur would pretend not to be interested but then somehow get dragged in anyway. Who would be the genficcer?

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Maybe Morgana? I dunno. Maybe Merlin multiships so hard that he comes back the other way a genficcer!

Arthur writes crackfic that he accidentally starts taking seriously. That, or he gets really into writing Karl's antagonistic beatdowns 'cos he gets to insert his Economic Learnings and it becomes mostly a reaction paper to his latest homework than a fic.

Gwen says, "You're probably the only one in the fandom who actually talks about the economics."

"Yeah?" Arthur says, trying not to sound pleased and proud. "What do you think of it?"

"Hmm." She scrolls down a couple pages. "Try adding a blow job right before Friedrich criticizes the idea of species being."

[meritjubet.livejournal.com]

This is awesome genius. I was more epic fangirling by Morgana and Gwen. They're so cute together :DD (Karl/Engles *cracks up* my god, who would be the Slash Dragon? *ponders*)

Living with Arthur as his roommate would be hell. At least he's pretty!

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

who would be the Slash Dragon?
Historical materialism!

Arthur would be a wonderful friend and charming at parties, but he would make a terrible roommate, yes.

[puckling.livejournal.com]

"I think quite a lot would ship you/me."

ME! ME!

LIGHTBULB: the show is about Karl Marx (played by Colin Morgan, heretofore known for his stagework) and Friedrich Engels (played by Bradley James, heretofore known for his abs), in the springtime days of youth. Before they were revolutionaries, before the Manifesto and Capital and those horrific beards, they were just Karl and Friedrich, engaging in bar brawls with Prussian loyalists and other such rakish things.

I feel like I have not mentioned this recently, but I love you. LOTS. Just FYI.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I <3 U 2 TRUFAX

Morgana/Gwen totally gets me in the squishiest parts of my heart, I cannot help myself.

(DELETED SCENE FROM THE TEEVEE SHOW:

"Stop challenging people to fights you can't win!" Friedrich commands as he half-drags, half-carries Karl to the tavern. They've probably lost those Prussian bastards by now, but he keeps his voice down anyway.

"Those bastard Prussians..." Karl mutters.

Friedrich kicks open the door to the tavern, and Marie behind the bar looks up. "What's wrong with you two, then?" she asks.

"Just a bit bruised up, the usual," Friedrich replies. Marie goes to prepare a compress as Friedrich and Karl settle into the nearest available seats. "You've got a nasty habit of annoying people who are either well-connected or twice your size," he sighs. "Whatever shall we do with you?"

"Thanks, by the way," Karl says.

"You're welcome, I suppose, though you really shouldn't be." But Friedrich smiles anyway.)

[silentsighs.livejournal.com]

!!!

need! more!

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Morgana's mobile buzzes with a text message on her way back from her IR course. It's from Gwen, and it reads: "new revolutions video diary! oh my god come home right now"

So she does, because how can you say no to a text like that? Halfway home, Morgana gets another text: "im halfway thru writing a bradley colin fic, would u beta it"

Morgana texts back, "i thought u dont do rpf"

The reply: "darling you just have to see this new diary"

She smiles. This sounds promising.

[lazaefair.livejournal.com]

*moans* Don't make me start compiling the Karl/Engels story into yet another journal!

i substitute your reality with my own!

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

haha, if this whole thing ends up becoming as long as the O11verse, i would be soooooo happy. i want everyone to play this with me! i cannot write all the fake video diaries for the fake show with real people all on my own!

[mumblemutter.livejournal.com]

"I can capslock about you until the comments collapse," Gwen declares

♥_♥

Your mind, dude. I want to feed it chocolate and like. Coo at it and tickle its chin-- I'm not sure where I was going with this. BUT OH MY GOD THE META-META-META. So much love! Karl/Friedrich!

And Merlin and Arthur as roommate dudes is like, my happy place now.

Also:

Arthur once compared it to learning to drive in Karachi: you may not know what you're doing on the road, but then you realize no one else does either, and it's liberating -- you can do whatever the hell you want. Well, maybe Arthur feels liberated, but mostly Merlin feels tired. He has outgrown his affections, and he's just waiting for something else to replace it.

Oh god stop it. *quarterlife crisis* (Never stop!)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Merlin and Arthur as roommates is entirely too based on my boyfriend and his ex-roommate, whom I would ship if we were a show.

*QUARTERLIFE CRISIS D-:* (aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh)


Morgana's solution to procrastinating homework is to have homework-doing competitions with Nimueh. They sit at adjacent computers in the computer lab and the last one to finish their reaction papers has to get the drinks on Friday, or do something else that the winner stipulates.

"Guys, you remember Nimueh," Morgana says when they show up at Arthur and Merlin's apartment, Morgana with a smile, Nimueh with what is trying to not be a scowl.

"Of course," Arthur says. "Hello."

"Nice to see you again, Nim," says Merlin.

"Please don't call me that," says Nimueh.

"But you liked that last time," Merlin says.

There was an awkward silence.

"She'll be doing your dishes!" Morgana says brightly. "Please point her to the sponge and soap and things like that, and maybe next time I go hunting for a mug in your kitchen, I won't get a rash from the dishwater, eh?"

"That was the one time," Arthur points out.

"Rash?" Nimueh echoes.

Morgana says, "I'll be off. Enjoy yourself, Nim."

[lettersandliars.livejournal.com]

BEST CRACK VERSE EVER, holy shit. I think I would ship Marx/Engels/Marie-the-quick-witted-barmaid, but I don't think I'd ever be able to look my history teacher in the eye again. (But hey, he cosplays Battlestar Galactica, no worries.)

"I can capslock about you until the comments collapse," Gwen declares, and Morgana kisses her cheek, replies likewise.
D'aw.

Also: Gwen already had to reformat her laptop because she got adware going on sketchy websites trying to find the newest episode. Art imitating life?! Ahahah.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

That Marie, she is also handy in a fight, of course! Outbadasses everyone in the cast (except possibly Engels Sr) by miles!

Art imitating life?! Ahahah.
YOU CAUGHT ME D-:

oh man i want everyone to play in this sandbox, it is too fun. fake video diaries for a fake show ftw!

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

PAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, THIS IS SO MUCH WIN. ♥

Especially the fanfic-writer AU. It's so epicly hilarious and crack-filled that I want MOAR. And I will never think of any my fandoms especially Merlin the same way again.

Oh, and hi. I'm kind of a lurker, but this was linked from be_themoon's journal, so yeah.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

<33 Thanks! And hello! XD

I am kind of having a little too much fun playing in this 'verse, so I can totally give you more. Gimme a prompt, whether it's about the fake show, the fake-show cast, or the fen in university, and I'll drabble something :D

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! I now want to see Jenny and the barmaid (who totally needs a name XD) talking about Friedrich and Karl and how ridiculous they are.

Alternatively, Arthur hijacking Merlin's laptop and READING ALL HIS FIC. And then leaving comments on it.

OR BOTH. <3333

I love this 'verse so much.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! I now want to see Jenny and the barmaid (who totally needs a name XD) talking about Friedrich and Karl and how ridiculous they are.

Alternatively, Arthur hijacking Merlin's laptop and READING ALL HIS FIC. And then leaving comments on it.

YES. ♥

[lazaefair.livejournal.com]

Prompts: how about Merlin, sometime after being dragged into Revolutions fandom by Gwen and Morgana, gets a little too passionate on his presentation about Marxism in his 20th Century World History class? Awkward questions from the professor ensue!

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

The comment the professor wrote on his report:

"You present the details of Marx's personal life in a most compelling way, which would've been great if the assignment were about that and not about how commodity fetishism is applicable in our world today. Your extensive "oppression of communism = oppression of homosexuality" argument is creative and interesting, but unnecessary. Stick to the topic next time. C+

PS: What time is this 'Revolutions' show on again?"

[whirligigged.livejournal.com]

High-fives! Arthur and Merlin's bro-hood: epic.

I also really can't deny the appeal of seeing any mention or sight of the T in any form of fiction. I feel all special and it makes me want to sit awkwardly between strangers and grasp filthy metal poles with my sleeves and be nostalgic for eight months ago.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I lose for not replying to this comment sooner! The haze of finals, how I hate it.

New England priiiiiiide! I did my undergrad in Worcester and oh man, Massachusetts will always occupy a special place in my heart. This 'verse may or may not be an excuse for vicarious living.

[phoenixgfawkes.livejournal.com]

"Friedrich/Karl, the OTP that ate fandom!"

Oh.My.Efiin'.God. You've just killed me with that one, because as bizarre as it might sound, ever since I had to read the Manifesto of the Communist Party I've been telling my f-list that someone should write some Marx/Engels fic because c'mon, they're totally OTP! And then I saw this and I LOLed so hard because it was as though you had read my mind or something. Really, it's too awesome for words. Morgana and Gwen writing porn together, a horrified Arthur wondering why would anyone care about characterization in porn - so, so priceless.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

WOW I AM SUPER LATE IN REPLYING TO THIS COMMENT. Giant fail on my part, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME. D:

Dude, totally OTP. I was just telling someone how, after discrediting scores of intellectuals, the only guy Marx trusts is Engels. Engels wrote a poem for him! When they first met, they holed themselves up in an apartment to get drunk and talk politics and do it for, like, a week. Engels steals money from his dad so Marx won't starve in penury!

Have you read the Marx biography by Francis Wheen? It's compelling and hilarious and kind of cracked out, I totally recommend it.