a love letter to apes

Mahnoor Mushtaq
3 min readJun 11, 2021

Since it is a visualization blog, you do not get to know what is happening here.

The one with the apes

a summary/warning

To: apes

From: mahnoor

Pawam — twinkling eyes and messy hair, the guy out of a book, annoyingly perfect, knows everything about anything, reliable, talks about anything and everything, replies to your last text when no one does! the sounds of his laugh echoing through the days. windchime.

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Mayab - 2 a.m. conversations. supreme leader. partner in crime, the girl with words and ideas, silent until the rage leaves her no choice, witty! Elizabeth Bennet and Sylvia Plath. makes you wonder. leaves you notes. brutally herself. beach, waves. blue.

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Imad- contagious smile and endless memes. cares passionately screaming it to the worlds. humble and shy. blushes and jokes. impeccable playlists, endless interests. knows too much yet innocent. makes you want to protect him against the world ( might kill me for saying this ). soup.

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Touva- apei, the most wholesome thing in the world, a whole universe, small victories and endless conversations, almost a soulmate, personality so vast you never know how much is still unknown. museums and parks. mountains and greens. cats and chicken. golden.

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Abad- limitless calls and long walks. laughs the hardest at his own jokes. the first to ask you if you are alright. Taylor Swift and Shawn Mendes. always curious. google on fingertips. the last to leave. otherworldly. found somewhere lost in hair. gloves and cardigans. sunset.

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Hapsa- the Hermione Granger of apes. mostly absent but always present. kararian and aftari. fields and mountains. crushes and laughs. escaping into guns. the most confident, the least interested. the no-nonsense. stories and plot twists. Red.

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(not an ape, I'm glad I found someone)

Yumna- gilmore girls and gilmore girls. a chain of same. the repetition of ikr. the most cooperative. compassionate. always busy but never too much. a text away. hopes and dreams. Lahore and steaks. the Joey to my Chandler. the Chandler to my Joey. Cutest thing in Amal. food, and margaritas. purple.

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Yes, that is all. Leaving you with

-think of me when you see the moon.

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This is so beautiful Venus <3

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MashaAllah MashaAllah. Y'all are so adorbs. MashaAllah

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the Joey to my Chandler. the Chandler to my Joey.

This 🖤. So are you 😭✨

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