TravellingPoetics

Hi! I’m Traveller. Yes that’s my legal name. This is just a place for me to post sketches and art surrounding the fanfiction I write. He/him Trans and aroace! Can you tell I like found family….

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Thought it’d be fun to see what it would actually look like for the churchmouse to wear the mask.

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Venti’s gender is whatever pisses Diluc off more that day.

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“What a gift it was. Not a lack of care, but an immense, overflowing love of choice.”

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I finalized a design for the church mouse a while ago. I wanted to give them a modern sweater while also having it look a little fantasy, therefore: wizard sweater.

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Ok so can i just say how much i like ‘Who will bell the cat’? Ive never really seen a genshin isekai fic where the traveler isn’t there and the mc has to figure it out. I think it’s a pretty realistic fic of getting isekai’d without any powers.

I can’t believe I missed this!

I’m surprised that there isn’t more isekai fics like it out there. I didn’t want to deal with the consequences of having the traveler still going nation-to-nation saving everyone because I’d probably be writing the main character getting FOMO (I mean why wouldn’t they get envious? You played the game. It’s fun to be the hero), but as it turns out, my solution of removing them doesn’t stop their presence. And that led me to even more interesting possibilities to explore— what sort of character could be the most interesting foil for an all-powerful hero? Could a human reasonably even go through all that they do, even if they were willing? How would someone reasonably react to changes they were making because of the absence? —I’m going to avoid rambling further, but my point is I think very frequently about the stuff that isekai stories can mess with in their trope parameters and I’m very grateful people have been enjoying the culmination of my ponderings on the subject.

Thank you for reading along! And liking it, too. I’d never thought I’d get that far.

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fischl design based on who will bell the cat? on ao3

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Oh, Fischl! Fischl you teenage girl they could never make me hate you!

Thank you for your bountiful meal. And also for pre-reading chapters and quelling my fears that I have written myself into a plot hole. It could still happen in the next one, have faith.

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I never go into drawing these characters with the intentions of making them a completely rendered piece and then I just keep adding details. These are all still doodle dumps to me.

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Various canvas doodles that went nowhere but that was the point of them so its okay. I wish I knew how to draw electrocution to look more painful.

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This was meant to be just a doodle and then it became something far more detailed. Whoops! Tends to happen to a guy.

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saw ur diluc art and that was an immediate follow for me ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

YAS!!!! I WIN!!!!!!

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Does it count as spoilers if you already know exactly who you’re meeting in the next chapter? Anyway. I’m still awake at 2AM which doesn’t usually happen for me and I wanted to draw Diluc from the fic. This was fun. The highlights on the metal of the coat are color dropped from his in-game skin tone btw. I found that funny

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Wahoo! This was just meant to be a sketch but then I colored it and made it a bit fancier than most doodles. I had to use some sketches I made to figure out posing two people on one glider because no matter what you do it looks very unbalanced and scary. But maybe that is the point.

I am now going to say a bunch of things about the fanfiction its based on.

fun fic fact: during the middle of writing the skeleton notes for the chapter I audibly started laughing at the fact that I keep either drowning the reader character or throwing lightning at the reader character, and realized that I’m making them get electrocuted again and I didn’t even intend that to happen. It’s one of the two, it’s really funny for me.

I’m sort of putting off writing the next chapter because the chapter right after that next one still isn’t quite figured out and it’s making me so so worried. Which is ironic given the part of the message of the fic is that regretting decisions is stupid and paralyzing yourself from making choices won’t help you because you always have choices to make. I need to look in the mirror and learn from my own words but by god is it hard. But my motto has always been that if you don’t want to do something, just tell yourself you don’t care and do it badly because nine times out of ten what you think is “badly” is actually respectably passable and you’ve gotten yourself over the hurdle and also did the thing.

Still. You should see the paragraphs of rants i’ve sent to my friend groupchat about writing this. When things click, they click, but when they don’t, i AM the fretter. I will get very stressed about if where I’m going with it is good or not, but its always worrying about the far future and the near future is easy to write through. Rant over thank you for listening :>

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“Don’t die!”

Every drawing i’ve been posting on this account is from my fic “Who Will Bell The Cat?” On AO3 btw. I forgot to say that I think. If It has the tag “Belled Cat Drawings” somewhere, its that specific fic-related. Fun fic fact, there wasn’t originally meant to be a hug there, it was going to be a shoulder pat, but I read it over and figured I should give something more after putting the reader character through absolute hell.

Anyway I like Amber, I used to main her but I never got her C2 so I grew sad and bored of it. I think Genshin’s simpler (for genshin’s standards) designs are my favorites, like Diona or Lynette. I think I also harbor a deep attachment to any tutorial character ever. They are so helpful, thank you girl.

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Oh my god okay so fun fact despite being on T for like 2-3 years due to unforeseen circumstances I still somehow got thfucking Cycle to start up and I forgot how awful it is for that to happen. Out of nowhere, too, like what the fuck. I missed one or two gel doses but that’s never been enough to completely start it up again, especially since I’ve been taking it every day again during. WHAT!!!

My go-to method of feeling better is usually drawing me COVERED in blood. Head to toe. And also this time around I’ve been using writings to also get the feelings off my chest because apparently its just really fun to inflict fake intense pain and agony on an unforeseen level to a symbolic version of me because I feel discomfort and dysphoric LMAO. So it’s showing through a lot because of how much I’m maiming the reader character and how much they are forced to be constantly aware of their body because GUESS WHAT. AAAAAGUH!!!!!

With the art of the glowy arm in regards to the fic, I don’t think there’s actually a visible magic to it, at least not shown under the skin unless there’s an intense buildup. The glowing veins is more of a visual representation of where the wind follows in the veins, because it tends to follow the paths already laid out in the body, although it also can choose to build up Wherever and between Whatever.

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Small sketches drawing venti from memory vs drawing with his reference.

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Bennett infirmary scene! With my sona, anyway.

Most self-insert fanfiction involves romancing characters, and I so earnestly don’t want to do that. My escapism fantasy solely revolves around Hanging Out with my favorite guys forever and always. Which is funny, considering a decent chunk of this particular fic so far has been away from all of the characters and the reader character in terrible agony. They’ll show up more. Eventually.

Also, the more I write the more I’m realizing Bennett harbors little to no significance nor purpose for a decent amount of the plot. I’m going to make him show up despite that because I like him and find him neat. I headcanon he has been afflicted by every disease forever.

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I had a very hard time coming up with a mental image in mind for the infirmary gowns, mainly because I didn’t really know what fantasy hospital garbs look like. I’m happy with what I figured out for them, though!