u/MycoM0mmy

While I’m still not exactly sure of it myself, I believe I have polysubstance addiction and so quitting snorting suddenly, after year’s worth of daily use (with occasional breaks here and there for a few days), wasnt as mentally challenging as one might expect it to be.

What led to this decision was my increasing paranoia about the state of my nose, the state of my nose, and in the leading days, smelling blood randomly throughout the day. I didn’t have any whistling, nosebleeds, or visible perforations but they felt very irritated and injured.

Anyways, it’s been about a week since I stopped snorting, and up until yesterday my nose was doing very well. Then yesterday, my right nose just clogged and started to run a lot. It didn’t help that I was sat in a train when this occurred without a warning and I was left to try to discreetly collect the pooled liquid with the back of my hand every 5 minutes. Today, the left nose started doing the same exact thing, and I was constantly sneezing throughout the day and always sounded out of breath because I could only breathe from my mouth. And I wouldnt really mind these, but my nose itself hurtsss. It feels dry, very fragile, pissed, and always irritated as if I was having a multi day long allergy episode.

Is this normal? Istg my nose didn’t hurt nearly as this much while I was using, and it wasn’t cocaine I was using so the whole anesthetic effect thing is not in the equation either. Im genuinely puzzled, and I would appreciate any advice on minimising nose symptoms going forward

Just finished Durin’s story quest and I may have missed out on a nuance here because in Nod Krai act 7, we witness Dottore trying to recruit Traveler to his side because of their ability to transcend fate due to their descender status. They are not a part of teyvat, nor the Irminsul, and for that reason the so called fate of teyvat happens independently of the traveler’s actions, and their actions can influence the fate of the world (as we see in Fontaine^*).

^*You could argue here that it was Focalors who dealt with the prophecy by making sure it came to pass, and she had Neuvillette witness Fontaine’s history to make sure he couldn’t turn his back on them after gaining his full sovereignty as hydro dragon. But even then, it was thanks to the Traveler Fontaine learned about primordial water and started the cascade of events that led to the trial of Furina. Had the traveller not been involved, we don’t know if Focalors’ plan would’ve worked.)

Anyways, after Dottore fails to persuade the traveler, he then goes onto steal the two moon marrows and to make a third one which would give him the trilune authority, which would effectively make him a god. You certainly don’t need me to tell you how obsessed Dottore is with his ideals but why would he go out of his way to steal the trilune authority if he could recruit other individuals who can overcome fate? Durin initially came to be in the pages of M’s book, and when he is resurrected by Albedo, the world starts forgetting about him because Durin never belonged to this world to begin with. That’s why he is given the pen by M, so that he can continue writing his fate. Does that not mean he can effectively overwrite fate just like descenders can? In fact, this was even acknowledged in the Archon quest as Dottore can’t foresee the actions of Durin and Wanderer because neither of them are recorded in Irminsul. Of course, the tevyat chapter is far from over so I don’t doubt we are over with these bunch but I find it pretty interesting how that angle wasnt explored further