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Good news! Berlin Angel now has a German translation. Its complete, so if you want to brush up on your German with your favourite fanfiction, you can find it here.

Thank you @miss-bronte for the work you did!

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Sometimes I wish I could read Berlin Angel for the first time again... Thank you for writing and sharing it with us, I adore this fic so much huhu. :(

Thank you 🩷 I’m glad you enjoyed it so! Maybe rereading after you had some time to get fuzzy on the details will scratch that itch

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Full moon over Berlin

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Wizarding Robes: A Personal Guide

🏳️‍⚧️ From a trans artist who loves trans people and is fascinated by the room for gender presentation in robes 🏳️‍⚧️

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decided i’m going to do it berlin angel remus style (date her platonically until she realises and then we fall madly romantically in love after being such good friends first)

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German Remus Lupin 💕

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I… had no idea German!Remus was a ✨thing✨ outside of my imagination

What’s up w german remus? lol

German Remus is everything to me. He is a vibe. He is a lifestyle. He's extremely left leaning and loves a political demonstration. He has complicated feelings about East Germany. He's cosy. He actually hates the cold, but still makes sure he he practices lüften in the winter because he's not about to let mold in his apartment. He seems serious, but actually has the most wicked sense of humour and his smile powers entire cities. He always slathers his fries in Pommes-Soße and can be found eating Döner Kebab and smoking a cigarette that he rolled himself behind a bin at 3am. He rides a vintage racing bike. He reads der Schimmelreiter by Theodor Storm once a year—not because it's good, but because it made him feel something. He loves small Cafés where he can sit outside and read with his Kaffee and Kuchen. When he spends time in Berlin, they actually let him in to Berghein—not because he's cool, but because he looks so pathetic and unbothered that he actually suits the vibe. His favourite musical artists are Trettmann, ENNIO and TYM, but catch him dancing and screaming the lyrics to 99 Luftballons at der Klub. He loves a wheat beer, but prefers Kölsch, and if you try to make him drink Astra, he will throw up. Update: I've been informed he's a Sterni guy, and honestly I see it.

@lilacella and @polaroidcats have been doing Gott's work, bringing beautiful collages to us. You should absolutely go and check them all out!!

If you need more evidence of German Remus being everything and then some, please read Berlin Angel by @de-sire-blog or Seventeen Hours by @eyra. Cat also told me to rec where are we now? by lady_grey. (there is also the German Remus Lupin tag on ao3)

Finally, if you haven't read Cat's antifa wolfstarbucks ft. commie Remus YOU MUST.

Anyways, as you can see I have no thoughts or feelings about this at all.

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Hi I will probably leave a longer comment on ao3 later when I have time but I just wanted to say I just finished reading Berlin Angel and I absolutely loved it, it’s one of my favourite fics I’ve ever read. It’s helped me through a rough week and made me want to go back to Berlin. Thank you for writing it and sharing it 💙

Thank you! I’m glad I was able to bring a bit of light into your week 🩷

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Berlin can be almost pretty when the sky turns pink

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After rereading Berlin Angel by @de-sire-blog, I needed to revisit my bind of this fic.

It was my second bind of a fic and in the last year my skills (and tools I use) changed quiet a bit.

I didn’t want to rebind the old one and I didn’t want to bind a completely new one. So a dust jacket was the solution (even though I don’t like them very much)

Here is the original

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the lab getting the attention it deserves 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ my favorite fic of all time

Aw thank you ☺️🫶

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Who’s responsible for this? 🤭

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“Berlin Angel” by @de-sire-blog 😇

Handbound for personal use only. Keep fanfiction free🙌🏻

“The thing that catches Sirius’ attention even more than his general attitude, is his jacket. It seems to be of some sort of fluffy fleece material and flashing in different, bright colours – one sleeve pink, another light blue, the high collar and chest bright yellow, the lower part lilac. As if a pack of back-to-school highlighters vomited on him. It’s absolutely, outrageously ridiculous and Sirius can’t help a genuine smile.”

This cover is 100% inspired by Remus f*cking Lupin. His jacket, tattoos, and favourite bar🙌🏻

This fic means so much to me. I can yap for hours about it but instead I’ll leave here some quotes that stuck with me:

“Do you always stay away from doing things you want?” … “How is this working out for you, huh?” … “Does it feel like you have more control that way?”

“You and I are not that different. You just lack one thing that I have.”

“And that would be?”

“Honesty,” Remus supplies with a smile. “If you stop lying to yourself, you’ll feel better.”

“This is not you, it’s just an apartment. The place you work at is just that, not you. If you continue associating your identity with your home or your work, it will slowly reduce down to it.”

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I went to Berlin for a couple of weeks because of this fic and absolutely fell in love with the city😌 It’s so diverse, beautiful and open. Every district has its own identity and it feels like you are travelling between different places while staying in the city borders. Kreuzberg (aka Remus’ district😆) will occupy a special place in my heart forever! It is pure magic✨ Landwehrkanal near Admiralbrücke is my favourite place now! Also Berlin was the first place where I felt that being queer wasn’t a bad thing. It’s like you can be you and everyone is just fine with that. How lovely huh?😅 All in all I loved it there and hope to go back someday😌

P.S. I nicked that coaster I put on the back cover from Die Apotheken Bar🫣 Sorry baaaar😆

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Im just saying if you want to read a real love story you only have to read the comments on Berlin Angel

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I laughed so hard at that

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More and more people are telling me they have or are in the process of moving to Berlin after reading Berlin Angel.

And don’t get me wrong, that’s so cool, I don’t have the words to express the feeling it gives me.

However, I’m beginning to wonder whether I fucked myself over by basically advertising Berlin as this great place to move to and making the housing market just that little bit more intense 💀

Y’all better be prepared to help me find a place when I have to move soon bc shits insane over here