Umbrelloid Archive | Exclusive

It is a dome on a stick. A shield against the sky. But look closer—into the gills of a mushroom, the crown of a dandelion gone to seed, the bell of a jellyfish, or the silk of a parachute—and you will see that nature, culture, and machines have all copied the same blueprint.

, a massive, non-profit, open-source repository for fanfiction and transformative fanworks operated by the Organization for Transformative Works The Content: umbrelloid archive

When the archive receives popular or "endangered" data (e.g., a banned book or a disappearing website), it automatically triggers sporulation – the process of creating multiple, independent copies across distant nodes. If one copy is destroyed, another "spore" germinates to take its place. It is a dome on a stick

So we archive. We hoard the domes, the caps, the canopies. Because somewhere in the long family of umbrelloids, there is a design that will teach us how to better shelter one another. We hoard the domes, the caps, the canopies