My baby 🕊️

return of the doves (|| ゜Д゜)!!!

i haven’t been going out much besides school… that whole incident i mentioned a bit ago really freaked me out, i guess. the birdies aren’t scared at all, though… i must stay strong! ((ヾ(≧皿≦ﾒ)ﾉ))

i haven’t seen any rabbits lately…. it’s almost springtime too!! bunnies come out wherever you are ( ｡ﾟДﾟ｡)

Renegade — Doves, Constellations For The Lonely (2025)

I got into this album because Firesuite is on the Disco Pigs soundtrack and Catch the Sun is used in On the Edge. Sometimes I just put it on for no reason at all besides the fact that it’s really good. I love Doves!

It is tempting to map political differences onto the stability and exploration distinction, but the reality is more complicated.

Political psychologists have noticed that people who lean toward conservative or right-wing positions often place stronger emphasis on order, tradition, and protection against rapid change. People who lean toward progressive or left-wing positions more often support experimentation, reform, and expansion of social arrangements. Research summarized by scholars such as Jonathan Haidt shows that conservatives typically prioritize values like loyalty, authority, and stability, while progressives emphasize fairness and openness to change.

From an organism perspective this roughly corresponds to two different strategies. Conservative tendencies attempt to preserve structures that have already proven workable. The underlying logic is risk management. If a social system already sustains survival and cooperation, radical change may destabilize it. Progressive tendencies attempt to modify or redesign structures when they appear inefficient, unjust, or outdated. The underlying logic is adaptation. If conditions change, systems must evolve.

However, drawing the conclusion that one side is harmful for progress misses an important dynamic observed in complex systems. Stability and exploration are not enemies; they are complementary functions. A system that only preserves stability can become rigid. If environmental conditions change, it may collapse because it cannot adapt. Historical examples include empires that resisted reforms until they disintegrated. But a system that constantly pursues exploration without stabilizing successful arrangements can also become unstable. Rapid institutional experimentation can produce chaos, economic collapse, or social fragmentation.

In evolutionary theory, successful systems operate near what researchers call the edge of stability, where there is enough order to maintain structure and enough experimentation to adapt. Without the stabilizing tendency, societies can dissolve into disorder. Without the exploratory tendency, they stagnate.

Political history shows that many major developments actually required both forces interacting. Scientific innovation, economic reforms, and civil rights movements often began with exploratory pressures, but they eventually required stable institutions to implement and preserve those changes.

Right-leaning tendencies often function as structural stabilizers in a society. Left-leaning tendencies often function as drivers of institutional change. Neither role is intrinsically harmful. Problems arise when one tendency dominates completely and suppresses the other.

If the framework is applied that we are the universe expressing itself through different strategies of survival then political conflict itself can be interpreted as a mechanism through which societies search for a workable balance between preservation and transformation.

I can hear Mourning Doves again!! Their calls are so majestic!

closest i’ll get to getting a dove for medic for a while i think

(tw below for painted blood)

also i never mentioned he shipped did i?? he’s so awesome i love bringing him around wherever i go. i even gave him one of my bracelets that i don’t wear anymore as a necklace.. it has a bell on it 🥺

i found my archimedes in a goodwill near me and figured i should definitely paint him. he’s not done yet i need white paint to make a more accurate beak color but yeah

(also i’m pretty sure it’s a porcelain pidgeon and not a dove.. they’re in the same family and i can’t be bothered to be picky i just thought it’d be cutee)

Badland Doves (2021) | Movie | Movies Dock

🎬 Title: Badland Doves
Revenge comes at a cost.
Story: Driven to seek justice for the murders committed by a man whom the entire town protects, these women embark on a quest for vengeance and are ready for a showdown.
⭐ Rating: 6.261 (23 votes)
📅 Release Date: December 1, 2021
⏱️ Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes
🎭 Genres: Western
🎬 Director: Paul Winters
✍️ Writer: Paul Winters
🌍 Country: United…

Badland Doves (2021) | Movie | Movies Dock

Aesthetic Gold Dove