Noooooo

They're making a Nancy Drew movie and it looks kind of awful. It's contemporary, and she's moved to LA, and she's still dressed in 50s clothes.

There's also a PDA and a bomb in the semi-horrifying trailer, plus scenes of The Bitchy Girls in High School (she's in high school). I'm detecting a certain amount of copying from Veronica Mars, except I don't know that you could call it "cashing in on the phenomenon" when the Nancy Drew franchise has been way more successful than Veronica Mars has been of late...

Marx/Engels: the most politico-historically significant historical rps otp?

This textbook pre-digests the classics of sociology for us because the professors in the department don't agree with me and isilya that it's pretty ridiculous to allow someone to get a master's degree in sociology without making sure they've read [some of] the texts of the founding fathers of the discipline in an original non-pre-digested form. But I digress. /rant

So in the beginning of the section on Marx, it's all, "Marx's partner, Engels -" and, well, I know they were compadres and frequent co-authors and they worked out their theories together, but partner? I was like, what, was Marx gay and no one's ever mentioned that to me before...? But no, it's a linguistic nuance, a whimsy of expression, or a personal blip in my own brain.

However, if you were curious, there is one google hit for "Marx/Engels slash". But it's more like epistolary posthumous unrequited longing, so does that make it Marx/Engels gen?


PS. I hate reading about Marx. It's like I'm allergic: as soon as he comes up my brain starts itching with boredom and irritation. I'd probably be as annoyed if there were some slash stashed away in there.