I Found Him On The Internet (short story)
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I Found Him On The Internet was a Jenny Everywhere short story written by Scott Sanford in 2022.
Contents
Plot
Kim is woken up by the return of Jenny Everywhere to their apartment. Jenny is back from her latest interdimensional jaunt with a literal Internet Troll in tow, and soon explains that while trying to attend an anime convention in a nearby universe, she has gotten involved in a robot rebellion, and has just popped over to pick up a robot meant to act as a new spokesperson for the artificial intelligences — none other than the Robot Toaster built for Jenny by Eric a little while ago.
Worldbuilding
Jenny Everywhere
- The Jenny featured in this story is the one primarily used by Scott Sanford from PROSE: Parallax onwards as his “default” Jenny.
- “A few universes over”, there exists an anime called Bugendai no Jenī no Itarutokoro (a title which the author's notes clarify translates as “The Infinity of Jenny Everywhere”.
- Jenny displays surprising levels of computer expertise. She explains that “this [version of her] usually just uses them for writing and stuff,” but “other [Jennies] nearby get a lot more into it, and that can echo out to other worlds”. She also asks, "Who do you think would name their search engine Goggle?”
Universes
- The story takes place in Jenny, Kim and Eric's own universe.
- Jenny speaks at lengths about her ongoing adventure in a “nearby” universe where “the Jiujinshan anime con is being held up by some industry A.I.s on strike wanting better working condition”.
Other
- Jenny Everywhere and Kim are both aware of the current location of “the mystic Spear of Longinus”, which is apparently “safely locked up”.
- Kim asks if the hirsute humanoid is an Oompa-Loompa.
Continuity
- The Robot Toaster built by Professor Awesome was previously seen in PROSE: Paying It Forward.
Behind the scenes
Background
After releasing the story on Dreamwidth in 2022, Scott Sanford appended some commentary to the story:
| There's no grand plan for this; I just started typing a silly scene and one thing led to another. I’d been thinking about serious stories addressing serious themes, like a real literature-writing author; sometimes what appears instead is stuff like this. I wasn’t sure why she brought home a troll; eventually I found out. This troll character is inspired by Gokuu from the old web comic Elf Only Inn. Alas, very few internet trolls are much fun. Similarly, I imagine Smashbot 555 to be as subtle and eloquent as Crushbot in Questionable Content. Clearly a lot has been going on and we open with Jenny Everywhere appearing and dragging a wake of chaos and nonsense behind her. We close with Jenny headed off to spread chaos and nonsense to someplace else. Symmetry there, and also Kim’s cue to quip, “Same old, same old.” Oh, and as far as I know the anime character Mikasa Ackerman is not named after the famous science fiction fan Forey Ackerman. I expect I’d watch the whole run of 無限大 の ジェニー の 至る所 (The Infinity of Jenny Everywhere) if it existed in this universe. Wouldn’t you? |
| —Scott Sanford |
Read online
The story is available on the author's Dreamwidth website.
