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In the eight episode -  i, robot ... you, jane - why is Giles having his texts scanned? Jenny makes some comment about an index and a database but Giles hasn't gone near it. Given how much of a Luddite Giles is, the database is obviously not for him. He has no interest in using it at all.

Date: 2013-10-29 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zooeys-bridge.livejournal.com
As a librarian and archivist, I can attest to the fact that digitizing is a massive undertaking. It would have taken years and a lot of money to get a database up to anywhere near useful. All revved up though, it would be extremely useful to the Scoobies. How good was OCR software back in 1998? An index and keyword search would have been totally boss. I'm thinking about this way too hard.

(Jenny obviously wore the pants)

Date: 2013-10-29 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
Hmm, lets see. Many of the texts were written in languages other than English, most of them likely in archaic forms of said langues. Also, the texts were handwritten, or a good number of them were. I doubt even today's OCR software would be up to the task. Lovely idea though and it would have been unbelievably useful to them.

And while I'll go along with Jenny wearing the pants, they were still sniping at each other at the start of this episode so that can't be why he agreed to this.

Date: 2013-10-29 03:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zooeys-bridge.livejournal.com
True, though there are OCR programs for non-english text. and as long as a book is in the latin, it should still be searchable. true though that archaic textforms and more obscure languages wouldn't work. Scooby crowdsourced project perhaps?!

As for Jenny & Giles + pants, someone fic it! :P

Date: 2013-10-29 04:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
That really does need to be written. I'm busy prepping for NaNoWriMo.

Date: 2013-10-29 04:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zooeys-bridge.livejournal.com
Maybe someone else will see the idea, cave, and do it :)

Date: 2013-10-29 04:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
It could happen. That's how I got sucked in to writing Giles as the big bad of season 1 (story planning currently in process and probably on-hold during November).

Date: 2013-10-29 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com
Hold up hold up hold up!

I asked for prompts and NO ONE said "Jenny & Giles + Pants - Go!"?

Right then. I kinda wanna play with that. Though, I can't promise it'll be anything less than crack, because I'm cool like that.

Date: 2013-10-29 04:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
Um, sorry? I obviously wasn't thinking at all.

I think a crack!fic would be awesome. ;-)

Date: 2013-10-29 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com
I love crack!fic. I love just silliness for no reason. It will have nothing to do with scanning books. It will probably have everything to do with pants. Probably.

Date: 2013-10-29 05:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
*laughs* I honestly didn't expect it to have anything to do with scanning books.

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Date: 2013-11-01 01:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com
That's how I got sucked in to writing Giles as the big bad of season 1

*points to icon*

I prefer to use the term "seduced" ;)

Date: 2013-11-01 02:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
*laughs* Well, I did volunteer so I can work with seduced.

But I'm not sure what your icon has to do with it.

Date: 2013-11-01 02:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com
My icon? oh, Nothing other than *laughing my ass off here*

Date: 2013-11-01 03:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
What? I'm nothing more than an object of humor to you? *pout*

Well, okay, *snicker*

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Date: 2013-10-30 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com
DONE

Think of me as your scary, veiny, fic-giving good fairy.

http://clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com/13671.html

It is pure crack.

Date: 2013-10-30 01:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com
Yu huh! I could NOT resist that prompt.

Date: 2013-11-02 01:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com

Think of me as your scary, veiny, fic-giving good fairy.

Works for me!

Date: 2013-11-02 11:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com
See, it's like I told you - I'm Anya, making things better for the Fandom's scorned.

Date: 2013-11-02 05:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
I'm glad you specified who you are because "scary, veiny"? I was thinking about to destroy the world Willow.

Date: 2013-11-03 01:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com
Yeah, Cordy calls her that in "The Wish", but it's totally not a line that's memorable. I was just being weird - me and [livejournal.com profile] red_satin_doll have this thing going on. I say I'm Anya, getting vengeance for the women Fandom scorns. I'm welcoming Jenny to the vengeance fold.

Date: 2013-11-03 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
Ah, Cordy calls Anya that? Yeah, I don't quite recall it.

So if Jenny is in the vengeance fold you're not gonna, oh I don't know ... come after me if I sorta kill her in my story, um are you?

Date: 2013-11-03 01:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com
I won't come after you... Probably. Depends if it's a slow day or not.

I'm thinking of an afterlife fic with her starring, anyway. So maybe there's fictional life after fictional death?

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Date: 2013-11-03 12:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com
I forgot Cordy calls Anya that! (Doesn't Xander say that in Grave?)

Anyhoo...I'm just surprised it's taken anyone this long to take up the cause so - yay!

Jenny as a Vengeance demon - I like that better than the First using her face without her consent.

Speaking of scorned women - why are there thousands of Spike & Dawn fics but almost ZERO Tara & Dawn fics? (Or even Buffy & Dawn fics?)

Just sayin'

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Date: 2013-10-30 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
I'm not sure if you saw that Jenny & GIles + pants (http://clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com/13671.html?style=mine) has been written. That was quick!

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