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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

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Thank you! A story about two guys just hanging out describes Berlin Angel surprisingly well (and them falling in love of course)

No risk, no fun!

I'm halfway through the fic Berlin Angel by @de-sire-blog and I don't even know how to begin to explain how much I'm loving this...

I don't know, it feels personal, almost. I find both of them to be relatable, for different reasons. I'm amazed by how much I can get invested into only literally reading about them hanging out. Like that's really it, you know? But I can't get enough.

I can't wait for what's next and I can confidently say this has already become my favourite wolfstar muggle au fic I read so far. It just hits different.

(also, it might just be persuading me to one day visit Berlin 👀...)

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Chapter 6: Silent treatment of "Friends we make along the way" is out now! We're in the home stretch now - I hope you like it :)

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living my best berlin angel experience 🙂‍↕️🤝💗

thank you @de-sire-blog you’re the best

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Chapter 5: WANTED: Unicorn-murderer on the loose of "Friends we make along the way" is out now! Can you guess what it's about?

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Chapters 3 and 4 of Friends we make along the way are finally up! Featuring fake dating friendships, Christmas miracles, and a brief Snow White crossover. And, of course, even more things trying to kill Harry.

Please let me know what you think in the comments :)

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Sorry for missing the publishing day for Friends we make along the way! I’m on holiday and did not plan ahead. I’ll be posting two chapters on Tuesday 😬

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A lot of people have been asking me, so I wanted to say it publicly:

I do not allow commercial printing of my works. This includes using order-to-print services of single or few copies for private use. The companies providing these services make money from orders and this is not allowed with fanfiction. Of course, you are not allowed to print and sell copies of these prints, but that should be obvious.

You can, however, print it yourself, at home, if you want to bind a book by hand. And only if it’s for your personal library, you are not allowed to sell self-bound copies of fanfiction.

I hope this makes sense. Please be respectful, I am not after a lawsuit from the one who must not be named 🫥

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Hi!! I enjoyed your Berlin Angel fanfic a lot, literally one of the best I've read, and I'm sincerely interested in translating it into Ukrainian (with your permission of course); I'd like to publish the translation on the Ukrainian fanfic source(or ao3 if I ever figure out how it works) with all the credits given, just to share this story with people who don't know English well enough:)

It's also a chance for me to practice a bit, as I'm studying to be an interpreter in uni! Wish you good day!!

Hi, thank you! You may have noticed that I’m a bit anal about publishing my works - I only do it if they are finished.

Unfortunately, I had bad experiences with translations where they’ve been (apparently) abandoned.

You can do a translation if you can genuinely promise that you will finish it and not abandon it after three chapters. If you’re unsure, that’s totally alright!

Also, I wanted to mention that all my fics are already translated into Russian by the wonderful @ssafium. Especially Berlin Angel is pretty popular on ficbook.

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"No, Sirius Black didn’t look phenomenal and yet Remus couldn’t take his eyes off him. He looked grown up. It was mesmerising and it hurt like a bitch. Because Remus had never thought a man like Sirius would be able to."

I don't know what I wanted to write here but I like it?