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wassup yall

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shes so genius.. 🍀

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a lot of my life is being a dick and them remembering i dont rly care about the things i am being an asshole about and so We Move ☮️

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as strange as i am i feel like im so much more normal than a lot of u (#im nothing like yall 😎😭😭😭)

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im the coolest girl in the world (i have 3 friends i talk to regularly and they all think im otherworldly bcs i am so weird)

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shopping shopping shopping !!🛍️

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me n da huzz

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the most amazing thing i saw 2day was a pair of magnetic forks n knives

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my 5ever song 🙂‍↕️🙏

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n now i have to stay up all morning for a meeting.. inshallah its quick and my mommy can get me food

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𓈒ིུ𖤛 early sunsets over monroeville

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a/n: first post woop ! im holding this piece very near n dear to my heart right now so handle it with care please 💭

The world's prey has developed an incredible arsenal of adaptations— both defensive and offensive, clever and formidable— that ensure their survival against nature’s least forgiving predators.

Butterflies have eye spots, skunks spray, and opossums play dead.

Humans, however, have not been lucky enough to evolve such ingenious survival mechanisms.

You suppose if the nascency of zombies had been organic, the situation would be different. But, alas, all you have are your muscles and weapons. You adorn yourself in all sorts of protection— a barbed baseball bat, pocket knives, guns (that you’re too afraid to use).. everything you could carry with you.

You’ve been teaching yourself how to survive since the first mention of real life zombies but nothing could prepare you for the pure desperation to keep living and fear you would feel when having to put all those skills to good use.

You met him, Percy, as he introduced himself to you, the same day you killed your first zombie— or rather, your first zombies. In any other case you would have deemed yourself supremely idiotic to place your trust in anyone after the first 2 minutes of knowing— seeing, really— them but the circumstances were complicated.

Firstly, it was a miracle you hadn’t frozen up in fear and let the zombies have you, and secondly, he seemed soo.. distinctly human in a way you hadn’t seen since before the apocalypse started.

He watched you scream as you swung your bat around, eyes closed, bludgeoning anything unlucky enough to be in your path.

‘Anything’ just so happened to be 3 zombies.

You were running off of pure adrenaline, hands shaking and no way to tell if you were doing any real damage. You couldn’t open your eyes. If you did, you’d be reminded that this was real. You are beating up real zombies and if you don’t win, you’ll die.

Zombies weren’t as durable as they might seem. A lot of them took themselves out on account of their own (inculpable) recklessness. There were a few built more sturdy than others, but luckily, these were your standard brainless, sluggish, and frail zombies.

You’d think he would have approached with more caution considering you had just fought for your life and were still holding a wired bat in your hands as you question if it makes you a murder to kill the undead. But no, he put his hand on your shoulder gently and immediately regretted it.

You gasped, quickly spinning around to make him the next victim of your rampage. Thankfully, he ducked with wide eyes, missing your blow by a hair and by then you’d realized he was not a zombie.

He looked at you in shock rather than fear. Faces void of the chronic anxiety that came with living in the current world were rare— but not extinct, you now realized.

You have now been traveling with him for 3 months, and are content to be sitting on the ledge of an abandoned gas station while Percy looks for gas. Your life has improved a lot since you met him. You feel less like you’re waiting for your imminent death and more like you’re living now.

“They say we’re made of stardust.” You comment, as he drives down the desolate road.

He gives you a quick glance before looking back at the road, though you think it’d be hard to crash in these conditions. “Yea? What do you think?”

You shrug, looking at your hands, examining the palm, almost waiting to see if it’ll glimmer like the night sky does. “I think that’d be cool.” You believe it more when you look at him though. He’s beautiful enough to be related to the stars. Bright enough too.

“What about you, do you believe it?” You ask.

He hums thoughtfully, tapping his finger on the steering wheel a couple times before looking at you with a smile so unguarded and warm it makes you a bit squirmish. You’re thankful when he sets his sights back on the road ahead of him.

“I believe it, but I don’t think whoever said that was speaking scientifically. Sometimes you meet people who feel like they belong up there.” He gives you a quick glance. “Like they were never meant to be down here with the rest of us, You know?”

You admire him as he speaks. Watching the way his smile lines show when he talks, how his eyes shine so stunningly in the moonlight.. You think about how he seems to light up any room he stands in, how he knows just how to keep things light so effortlessly, and it’s all for you.

You nod because yea, you do know.

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Writing Notes: Contronyms

Contronym

A word that has two meanings that are opposite or nearly opposite.

Example: Left means both “leave” (two people had left) and “remain” (How many people are left?), which are antonyms.

An antonym is a word that is opposite in meaning to another.

Contronyms are also known as Janus words.

Janus was an ancient Roman god with two faces that looked in opposite directions.

Another term for these words is auto-antonym, or a word that means the opposite of itself.

Technical terms for this phenomenon are enantiosemy, enantionymy, or antilogy.

Examples of Contronyms

Cleave

Comes from two different Old English words, clēofan and cleofian, which is how it got these two opposite meanings.

Cleave: to split, to separate (Owen swung the axe down hard in order to cleave the log into two even pieces.)

Cleave: to adhere closely, to stick (Young beaver pups cleave to their mother in the water until they are strong enough to swim on their own.)

Dust

When used as a verb, is a contronym.

Dust: to wipe the dust from (Every Saturday, he would dust the nicknacks on the bookshelves to keep them clean.)

Dust: to sprinkle with a powder or dust (The baker liked to dust their pumpkin bread with just a sprinkle of cinnamon.)

Overlook

Overlook: to fail to notice, perceive, or consider (I hadn’t finished the last two homework questions, but I hoped my teacher would overlook it and give me full marks anyway.)

Overlook: to look after, oversee, or supervise (The manager was required to personally overlook the transfer of valuable materials every evening.)

Sanction

Sanction: to authorize, approve, or allow (My parents wouldn’t sanction video games in our home because they thought they were too violent.)

Sanction: to penalize (The school said they were going to sanction the students for arriving late to class.)

Weather

The word weather is a contronym, but only when used as a verb.

Weather: to expose to the weather, to disintegrate (The paint on the house was chipped and weathered from the decades of rain and snow.)

Weather: to endure (We weren’t sure that we would be able to weather the storm if we didn’t find shelter.)

Back Up

Back up: to support (Ultimately, the scientists were unable to back up their claims with hard evidence.)

Back up: to retreat (The zebras backed up when they spotted the alligators in the water.)

Fine

The adjective fine has the potential to lead to some real misunderstandings about just how excellent (or not) something is.

Fine: of superior or best quality (To prepare for the Queen’s visit, the household staff cleaned the fine linens and polished the best silver.)

Fine (informal): satisfactorily, acceptably (Sandra thought her performance was fine, but nothing special, so she was surprised when she won second place.)

Original

The adjective original is an example of a contronym.

Original: belonging to the beginning of something (Despite being hundreds of years old, the painting was still in its original frame.)

Original: new, fresh, inventive (While sitting in the bathtub, the inventor was struck with an original idea.)

Pitted

The contronym pitted often causes confusion at the grocery store.

Pitted: having pits; in the sense of “mark or indent” (The sailor’s face was pitted and craggy from the wind and salt water.)

Pitted: having the pit removed; in the sense of “stone of a fruit” (My mom reminded me to buy the pitted cherries, because she didn’t want to take out the stones herself.)

Bound

Bound is an example of a contronym that has two different meanings because it actually has two different etymologies. The first meaning comes from the Old English bindan. The second meaning comes from the Old Norse būinn, “to get ready.”

Bound: tied, fastened or secured with a band or bond (The Mountie rushed to save the woman who was bound to the railroad tracks.)

Bound: going or intending to go, destined [for] (With all of their talents, the band was bound to be a success.)

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