instead of returning an empty item list on contradiction, return an empty proxy collection

app/controllers/items_controller.rb

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class ItemsController < ApplicationController
         # Note that we sort by name by hand, since we might have to use
         # fallbacks after the fact
         @items = Item::Search::Query.from_text(@query, current_user).
-          paginate(page: params[:page], per_page: per_page, as: :proxies)
+          paginate(page: params[:page], per_page: per_page)
         assign_closeted!
         respond_to do |format|
           format.html {

app/models/item/search/query.rb

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class Item
         rescue Item::Search::Contradiction
           # If we have a contradictory query, no need to raise a stink about
           # it, but no need to actually run a search, either.
-          return []
+          return Item.build_proxies([])
         end
         
         final_flex_params = {
@@ -94,13 +94,7 @@ class Item
         
         result = FlexSearch.item_search(final_flex_params)
 
-        if options[:as] == :proxies
         result.proxied_collection
-        else
-          result.scoped_loaded_collection(
-            :scopes => {'Item' => Item.includes(:translations)}
-          )
-        end
       end
       
       # Load the text query labels from I18n, so that when we see, say,