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17-09-2025: Posted the last chapter of Alle Mann Over Board! on AO3.
12-09-2025: Posted Wolsfburg’s birthday special, Friends to Lean On, on AO3 and Tumblr.
30-08-2025: All the Omake (non-canon cracky entries) of Bundeslihaha: WFMF on Tumblr has been posted on AO3.
25-08-2025: Ruhrpott Roundabout, a cracky one shot about Dortmund’s kitchen woes, has been posted on AO3 and Tumblr!
22-08-2025: Bayern’s (Royal) Blues, a crack crossover between Bundeslihaha and pausencl0wn’s gijinka from 2015, has finally been unearthed after 10 years on AO3 and Tumblr!
08-08-2025: The FC Augsburg birthday special, Der Mörder Hotzenplotz, has been posted on AO3 - the illustrations are also on Tumblr!
26-07-2025: The VfL Bochum birthday special, The Ratification of Anne Castroper, has been posted on AO3 and on Tumblr!
10-07-2025: A new story has been posted on AO3: Alle Mann Over Board! You can find the cover art here, there, and on Instagram (feuerverse)!
08-07-2025:
- A new art series is coming: #Photocards!
- I posted the latest chapter of Bundeslihaha Redux from 2018!
02-06-2025: Added a new tag: #Headcanon!
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16-12-2024: Coming on 21 December 2024: Bundeslihaha 10th Anniversary Retrospective
18-05-2024: To support others’ football club personification series/designs, I consolidated all my reblogs and my fan art of them on the #other gijinka tag! Enjoy :D
06-04-2024: Bundeslihaha is back, baby! >;D
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21-02-2023: This series and the blog are on hiatus until further notice.
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11-10-2021: New story alert! I updated the AO3 series with a new story called Bundeslihaha Redux: The Cutting Room Floor, where I’ll be posting Redux material regardless of completion status! Check it out! :D
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11-04-2021: My laptop is fixed! Now I can queue the Autograph Cards.
Here’s the tag for it: #cards
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15-12-2020: I can’t update a lot due to uni, health, and personal problems, but I’ll queue some old Bundeslihaha art, starting from the oldest one! (Yes, you heard it right! I’ll be revealing comics so old, the title was still Bundesliga Project ;D)
This was a highly ambitious undertaking, and I'm damn proud of it! Notes under the cut (and are subject to change) :D
warning: mentions of transphobia, nonbinary-phobia, slurs, and death (unrelated)
I didn't really think about eastern German clubs besides Union Berlin for "Freunde hinter Stacheldraht". But now, I'm far more interested in them! I thought it's an interesting tension between the disillusion that drives many in the former DDR into extremist/fascist ideology... the fans being like that, and the personification of their favourite clubs not being the "perfect" cis straight white guys that they probably expect.
Carl Zeiss Jena (until 2020) - she/her
Ah, Carl Zeiss Jena, the 2nd division women's club whose men's team is in an even lower division, but the fusion is so interesting to me that I had to make a design and story for her.
Being affiliated to the Zeiss optical company, of course I had to give her glasses. The cat's eye glasses is shaped like her crest somewhat. She has dark blue hair, almost black, and yellow eyes, like the club colors. To contrast the hourglass shaped Energie Cottbus (who also has yellow eyes), she has dark skin and a rectangle shaped body.
She dresses like it's the 1960s because it's just cool to me, no deep reason or anything.
FF USV Jena (until 2020) - she/her
The women's club who fused with/was absorbed into Carl Zeiss Jena due to COVID-related financial problems, has been preparing herself to die. She made a will, advance directive, everything.
She wears a combination of flowers (a botanical marvel in the city, and Carl Zeiss Jena's symbol), plus the butterflies (symbolizing death and transformation). To contrast the atheist CZ Jena, FF USV is religious, specifically a hellenic polytheist. She has the inverted torch, which is a symbol of Thanatos.
Her hair is dark brown, but dyed/bleached a lighter brown. Her eyes are a purplish dark blue (purple crest, blue jersey). Her build is fatter and curvier than CZ because of the wider crest.
She dresses like it's the 2000s because it's just fun to me. Although I think it's rare for her to wear clothes that expose a lot of skin like this one. This is just her summer clothes. Otherwise she'd wear like a turtleneck under her top.
Carl Zeiss Jena (2020-) - she/her
The fusion result combines both Jena traits, the nose is both wide and long, and a tall, curvy build. She has naturally dark brown hair (bleached and dyed silver) and light brown skin, with one eye being yellow and the other being blue. Still needs glasses though. B:P
Hansa Rostock - he/they
Friendless Jerk Extraordinaire. Being queer and trying their best to deny it gives them constant tension in life.
Hansa's quite fashionable here because SC Freiburg and Borussia Dortmund have dressed him up for his dating endeavor xD Otherwise, he would've just worn a T-shirt and jeans and beanie, and even cover his face with an ultras-like mask, like in Alle Mann Over Board. Still hasn't got the will to take care of their curls, though. Tragic :(
Hansa Rostock and Energie Cottbus are both nonbinary (Rostock is agender/genderless, Cottbus is unlabeled/questioning) and androgynous (in the "minimalist" way, instead of the "maximalist" way that St. Pauli presents themself), and here they both even wear cross-shaped neckwear!
They are an extremely toxic pair who will not hesitate to call each other slurs. They often fight even when they're "dating"... I mean, being deeply in denial, so basically Hansa is like "I'm totally a real normal manly man" and Energie is like "I'm happy to be a woman I'm so cis and straight" even though Energie is also sort of sapphically connected to VfL Osnabrück.
Energie is probably one of Hansa's first pick for the "blindly dating all the 'girls' among personifications".
Hansa Rostock being genderless is basically him thinking, "clubs have no gender, so I don't have a gender either, but unlike those personifications, I accept being a man because I have a ~male body~. I accept if people use 'they/them' because that's what normal people call football teams" (author's note: They do not actually accept being a man... it is a big part of their unhappiness.)
Dynamo Dresden - he/him
Dynamo's hair is based on his crest, naturally. His fancy clothes is based on the Baroque and Rococo architecture in the city. Thank you to neonmice for the inspiration! The contrast between the punk hair and handsome outfit is a fun one ;D
He has an hourglass, broad-shouldered build, and red-gold eyes with gorgeous thick eyelashes, in contrast to the scrawny Hansa Rostock whose eyes are never visible.
Also he's a trans man because I want him to be trans. Also I want him to be super masculine in a pretty way.
Union Berlin - he/him
His style is inspired by "Queen of German Punk" and club-anthem singer Nina Hagen, with the knightly chainmail and morningstar. He's androgynous to make him stand out amongst the other "Ossis".
Union is wearing green, white, and black piercings, which are the colors of Gladbach.
Bundeslihaha deep lore trivia: Union Berlin is naturally a brunet, as per "Freunde hinter Stacheldraht"! (Though other parts of that story will be changed for Loose Canon.) He bleaches his brown hair into an almost platinum blond.
1 FC Magdeburg - she/her
The brutal fans and brutalist city, inspired by neonmice also (much thanks to them), and also a feminine style as explained in the battle of the gay posse... Techwear is cute and sexy for her pear shaped build. And naturally, it's practical (lots of pockets to carry stuff!) The half-white and half-blue elements are based on her crest, of course.
Magdeburg has piercings in yellow, blue, and red - the colors of the Axis of Evil (Braunschweig, Mannheim, Frankfurt).
Energie Cottbus - they/them
Energie Cottbus has curly hair because it's rare in the group (only Magdeburg has it), so yeah! The undercut and eyebrows has two cuts/lines just like their crest. Their eyes and hair is yellow/gold/blond because of the crest's laurels.
As discussed in the Hansa Rostock section, I want Energie (and Hansa) to be masculine-of-centre. Cottbus and Rostock do not pursue medical transition, they like their bodies the way they are. Well, except Cottbus is far more confident about it. Hansa on the other hand thinks he's not manly enough because of his sparse facial hair and thin build and other shit he hears from the "manosphere".
I thought Cottbus is a constantly questioning person, considering their fans are swinging between hardcore neo-nazism and trying to fight back against it, so their political views, gender, tastes, etc. is all over the place. They try to be kind and good, though it doesn't work so well at times with their explosive temper, their environment, and also hanging out with Mx. Hansa "wir kriegen euch alle" Rostock.
Cottbus also joins the unethical (but probably funny to the personifications xD) "What will Hansa Rostock come out as?" betting pool, and bets that they're going to come out as a trans woman. I thought it's an interesting idea that Hansa would judge Energie, not just for "failing" to be a woman, but also for "not going all the way" to be more masculine and distance themself from their assigned gender (e.g. wearing a binder, taking testosterone HRT, etc.) and Energie would think that Hansa is so cruel to them specifically because he's the one who "wants to go all the way". (Because transphobia makes no sense.)
To contrast the also-yellow eyed CZ Jena, Energie has light skin. And also, they have an hourglass build like Dynamo Dresden.
Turbine Potsdam - she/her
She dresses like a "normie" modern femme, though sometimes she dabbles in having blue hair like in To Be Perfectly Frankfurt and her photocard. The stars are from her crest, and the film belt and clapper earrings shoutout the Filmspark Babelsberg and her interest in filmmaking.
Leverkusen (born 1904), Gladbach (born 1900), and Düsseldorf (born 1895) were much older than Köln (born 1948), so obviously the Billy Goats' management hired the three of them to take care of the kid when Franz Kremer and his wife weren't available. I tried my best to draw 1940s/50s clothes, though this does still look a little anachronistic xd
In this image, Köln is biting Gladbach :p Fortuna didn't dye her hair red yet, and Leverkusen didn't yet wear the blue and green contact lenses :'3
This is a WIP, but I don't know if I'll finish it xD
Bonus:
Reference by @adorkastock :D
Gladbach is lifting Köln up in the sky, Düsseldorf is just chilling with him, and Leverkusen lets him bite his Bayer cross necklace.
This is a really fun brush to use tbh. I tried to do an art study of a tumblr artist I like, but their style is really hard to do with a disability like this, so.. like, i've always wanted to do art studies soooo bad all the time. but. well. happy disability pride month everyone!
i don't really have much commentary except that i want to make carl zeiss jena have really short hair. maybe she even had a buzz cut at the time but i'm not sure. i love the idea of short haired femmes tbh
kismesissitudes are so romantic. that's not your enemy, that's someone you respect so much that it *pisses you off* when they fall short, and pisses you off even more when they don't. you want them to succeed! but you want them to succeed because you pushed them that way, not because you held their hand and made them feel better. in fact, you're going to go to great lengths to challenge them physically and intellectually until they have no choice but to improve! you trust them to keep you on your toes, and you also trust them to know when to stop, and when to back you up, because they don't want actual, unproductive harm to come to you.
you have enough in common with your kismesis that many of your goals and motivations align, but you're different enough that working towards those goals becomes a vibrant, productive struggle. they're always in the way, and getting on your nerves, but goddamn do they have good ideas that save your ass on occasion. and you know they feel the same way about you. you need them, because they make you better, and you hate them for it.
your kismesis is the first person you call when things go off the rails and you need someone that'll get shit done and hold the questions. your kismesis will give you hell for your mistakes, and they will always push you to step up your game, but ultimately they are confident in your abilities, and don't doubt for a second that you can hold your own. and if you're planning for a heist, or a fight, or a goddamn revolution, your kismesis is who you want in the war room with you, not on the other side of the battlefield.
I laughed way too hard drawing this stupid T-shirt 😭 Also I think HSV gave them the hat and T-shirt because they're besties 💙
Bonus: Richard Bornheimer's depression haircut
It's very uneven because he just can't care anymore. I might edit it to be messier later. Saskia is here for him the way he was there for her after the women's team's disbandment.
Nine (9) years after the "Thank you for 50 followers" post, I can finally post this artwork, and it is all thanks to YOU, my dear readers, likers, rebloggers, followers, and lurkers! It's been a rollercoaster this past eleven (11) years... but you all have been a wonderful part of it <3
I'm not a numbers person, cause to be honest, I'm terrified of becoming famous. But 100 is a good number... and maybe we can get to 200 followers in 2035. (Just kidding, just kidding. Do whatever you like, folks. I don't hold grudges on people who unfollow, and my numbers are always ticking down because I report spam bots xD)
I hope to see you on Bundeslihaha's 12th anniversary... soon! :D
✨ light mode version and notes below the cut ✨
After years of real life, I became a vampire, losing all melanin, grew eye bags, and started graying. Though my hair has gone gray since I was 15, I only started drawing it now. Because it's funny.
Also, I don't dress like this IRL lol I prefer more dapper styles. I actually would dress like 1. FC Koeln of Bundeslihaha if I could.
Also after drawing this I realize that the best Freiburg jerseys (not in any particular order) are these ones:
1993/1994 Away
1995/1996 Away
2015/2016 Home
2016/2017 Home
2021/2022 Home
2023/2024 Away
2025/2026 Home
2025/2026 Away
The rest of them are mid at best and eyesores at worst. Their 1990s jerseys aren't even THAT insane. I was right about NOT giving my SC Freiburg personification a fashion sense. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk(TM) </3
