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Tool-Bearing Hominid
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Hello brothers.

You don't know me - yet - but I know many of you, as I've scoured this forum for years. I've made a sincere yet highly ineffective effort to implement the sage advice of Granddaddy Chase, Papi Hector, and all of the other amazing writers here in this space, with middling success. But I have no intention of being anything less than a skilled seducer, which is why I'm here to introduce myself today.

Here's my journal, where I'll be documenting my outings. For now, at least until my skill in writing field reports tightens up by virtue of consistent practice, many of these entries won't make sense to anyone other than myself - indeed, I am literally writing to myself in a private offline journal. They'll be full chock full of questionable formatting decisions, non-sequiturs, and redacted information that I was just too lazy to edit out. Trust, I'll save the good stuff for the FR and LR boards!
 
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Tool-Bearing Hominid
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Today’s outing went how I went, but l now realize it started well before I even set foot outside.

I slept horribly last night. Due to some health issues, I struggle with severe insomnia. Maintaining anything less than perfect sleep hygiene results in me getting less than 5 hours of sleep, if any at all.

Funny then that I decided to play videogames with my roommate until 11am, which meant I didn’t end up falling asleep until 1am. I woke up just two hours later - maybe it was too hot? - but no, it was 69 degrees. I turned down the AC a few more notches and went back to bed, just to wake up again at 6am. I woke up around 9:30am, but didn’t get out of bed until 10am. I was gonna work out, but I decided to play a few rounds of Smash while I ate cereal, since I was still groggy as fuck.

My roommate (Mad M) woke up, and when he went to wake up my other roommate (Sir Cap a' Lot) so he could move the car he came back and told me Sir Cap a' Lot brought home a girl, which put a fire under my ass. If this goofy fuck is getting his dick wet with a decent looking girl while I’m stuck beating off with Lucy, then I need to be putting in more work. So I put down my cereal, forgot about how tired I am, and started busting out my shoulder exercises so I could get out of the house as soon as possible. However, within this time I took a shit. And since I’ve deleted YouTube and Reddit out of my life, there was nothing else to occupy my idle mind but some good ol’ GC content. This was a mistake. I needed to focus solely on the tasks that were right in front of me, but I found myself falling deep into the PUA rabbit hole, becoming quickly overwhelmed with information. Ah, good ol' analysis paralysis... Recognizing this, I closed my laptop. As I’ve come to acknowledge this past year, “planning” can absolutely be a form of procrastination in of itself. But the damage was already done; I had become anxious and unfocused, and it was a struggle to get it together even after I had arrived on campus (NOTE: everything is closed here, becuase Cali, cold approaching is hell, and my home campus is the only viable place to find girls right now. Can't wait till the pandemic is over....)

I trawled through campus, seeing a few cuties here and there. But I bailed each and every time. When I ran into a friend and talked to him, I could just feel how high my voice and how low my energy was. I kept on, but it was hot, and I was only getting more uncomfortable. The thought of going home empty-handed (“I’ll just try again on Monday”) was getting more and more appealing by the minute. But I couldn’t; I had to make at least one more run.

At last, right before I got to the bus stop, I finally approached this very pretty white girl. She was conservatively fashionable - I really do like girls like that. I opened decently enough, but the energy just wasn’t there. So it didn’t surprise me when she immediately told me she had a boyfriend. Fair. But as I was heading towards the bus, from the corner of my eye I spotted what looked like a cute Latina with a paisley leaf bandana sitting on the bench, all by her lonesome. Just my type. I didn’t hesitate; I came in strong, fast, and decisively. She hooked hard. She let me talk to her for like 7 minutes before telling me she had a boyfriend.

Slow start, but I finished.


Was there anything about today’s events that you found particularly interesting or noteworthy?

8/10 that approach anxiety is defensive, you think you want something you really do not want.

"I'm the kind of guy that can get that kind of girl and I'm going to prove it by doing it right now."

But then what you want is a proof and not the girl and so, you know, poor girl.

Also, the man who want proof is also and necessarily the one who isn't sure about himself, which is the point of proof.

But how is the anxiety not about the result? That is, because so much is at stake (the guy's identity) he, therefore, is anxious.

But I can see that if we were talking about somebody who really wanted to girl, he'd be more concerned about her and what stood in his way than about how he looked.


I came across this sage insight on a TLP post (The Last Psychiatrist, a blog that has nothing to due with the Manosphere, but one I highly recommend); surprisingly, it was written by a commentator and not Alone himself. I definitely feel like this was probably the factor that kept me from approaching today, in conjunction with my depleted energy. Truthfully, it just wasn’t hard to approach those last two girls. I knew I liked them the second I saw them, whereas I was very uncertain for all the other girls I came across today.


Where can you tell you can use some improvement? (something was wrong/off, you have a good idea of what it was)

Health is wealth; nature will do the work for you if you let her. Get some sleep and stop beating your fucking meat. Sincerely devote yourself to this task over the weekend and see how much of a difference it makes come Monday.

Anything else?

Talking to Cute Latina got me thinking. It was a good convo, but I could’ve really kept her spellbound if I added some raw sexuality to the mix. I could’ve taken a second or two... or three... to get caught in her eyes. I could’ve let my gaze fall down to her lips. Then back up to her eyes... just to slip even further down, slowly, along all of her curves, straight to her toes, before bringing it back to her eyes again.

Yeah, I got hard just writing that. Isn’t the basis of direct game just that? Raw, unbridled sexuality balanced by playful, sincere, childlike enthusiasm?

I’m so ready to go out again on Monday.

#approach-anxiety #analysis-paralysis #old-habits #procrastinating #overthinking
 
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Tool-Bearing Hominid
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My approach anxiety is as intense as it’s always been. What’s new is that it is no longer debilitating; after a few grueling years, I’m now at the point where I can approach beautiful women, my personal 8.5s, 9s, and 10s, with little to no hesitation, without having planned to do so in advance. In fact, I’ve made it a point to only approach beautiful women, or at least those I feel a strong attraction to. Indeed, this was in many ways a practical and tactical decision. I’ll talk more on the merits of approaching stunners later... even though it’s already been covered, there’s one more unexpected benefit that I’d like discuss - one that’s only becoming more relevant in our panic-striken times.

Anyhow, this past weekend I approached two. Although the approaches went okay - as beautiful women are generally more pleasant and respectful - they really weren’t taking me all that seriously. Sure, my approach was decisive enough such that they both stopped what they were doing to give me their full attention. However, in a way our interactions seemed somewhat patronizing, kinda like the way a young girl would talk to her pet rabbit: “Aww, how cute!”

There was this one woman who came in while I was working. She was short, 5’3 maybe, redbone, with hazel eyes and a curvaceous yet athletic build that was all the more tantalizingly accentuated by her simple sweatpants and tank top. I immediately took notice of her, since she was fine as fuck, although I made sure not to make any outward indication of my interest. I took her order and directed her to the waiting area outside, telling her it’d be a few minutes. Even though I was on the clock the approach anxiety crept in, goading me to approach, demanding that I approach, lest I seriously regret it. But what did me in was the way she turned away, breaking her eye contact downwards in an almost flirtatious manner - was that an AI? A subconscious one, maybe? Or was I just reading into it too much? It didn’t manner, it was attractive and I liked it, so I told my manager I was taking 5 and went out to do my thing.

I hit her with that ol’ reliable - “thought you were cute, wanted to say hi” - trying to muster as much raw passion that I could while simultaneously keeping my nerves in check. I was only halfway successful.

“But I have a mask on! And I just got my wisdom teeth pulled out, so I look like a chipmunk!”

“It’s more than just the face. It’s the vibe,” I said, as I calmly and slowly shook out the removable cushions on the bench adjacent to her so I could sit down. We bantered, and I got her to spill the basics - work, school, etc. - but she wasn’t biting on anything I was throwing out. Present, but not particularly engaged - or rather, not engaging. Actually, now that I think of it the only thing she commented on was my shirt, which bore the logo of my campus (she was freshly-graduated alumni). Facing the dual pressures of not knowing what to do and having to go back to work, I made my exit.

“What are you up to this week? Let’s get coffee if you’re free” (something like that, idk)

“I have a boyfriend... but we can be homies though!”

There's more work to be done. Until tomorrow...
 
a good date brings a smile to your lips... and hers

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Tool-Bearing Hominid
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This past weekend Mad M (who will henceforth be called Misanthrope Mark) and I went out to celebrate our friend's 21st birthday. Neither one of us wanted to go initially - she's boo'ed up (we were both trying to fuck her) she lived really far away, and she was being awfully vague about what the plan was - but she said her hot friends would be there. We pulled up to her tiny, tiny apartment to pre-game an hour later.

People are responding more strongly to my presence.

Almost as soon as I walked in got a lot of compliments on how I was dressed, almost all of which came from the girls. I was wearing an African print shirt from Zara, unbuttoned to the bottom of my chest and tucked neatly into navy chinos, Birkenstocks, and a simple black ring with a gold chain wrapped around it. Bit of background: I live and go to school in a wealthy, upper-middle class area that's mostly white and Asian. Unfortunately there's hardly any black guys here, so I tend to stand out for better and worse. I've been making a point to dress slightly more feminine to leverage the "artsy" vibe that I apparently have whilst toning down the perceived aggressiveness associated with my blackness. Given the warm reception, I can confidently say it's working.

Anyhow, after about 30 minutes or so one of birthday girl's friends - let's call her Kitty - showed up. I had only met her once before, but Misanthrope Mark told me that she thought I was beautiful. Yet while she's attracted to me I knew I'd have some attainability issues to get over. The first and only time I met her we played a game of truth and dare, one dare which involved her bending over to let me smack her ass as hard as I could. We both happily obliged - she was literally giggling and smiling the whole way through - but the next day when it came up in a conversation between the girls I overheard from the bathroom, I heard her capping hard as fuck, saying "noooooo, I really didn't like that...." Thank god none of the other girls bothered to entertain this, I'm super paranoid about anything even remotely resembling an FRA... All in all though, she probably just felt slutty for taking the dare so gleefully in front of all of her friends, so I knew I had to keep this in mind moving forward.

I went up to talk to her, and given her vibe it was clear she was still into me and everything was chill. This was the first convo we had one on one, so I made sure to do some light deep diving. I kept mingling about, killing time and getting to know everyone. After like 3 hours, we finally headed out to the club.

This officially marked my first foray into nightgame / social circle game proper.

We walked in to the sound of hard, industrial type dubstep the likes of Excision. I’ve spent countless hours on SoundCloud listening to the most eclectic of genres, so I had already built up an ear for what naysayers have described as a “Decepticon and Autobot hate fuck”, but it still took me a while to adjust. But the crew I pulled up with wasn’t fucking with the music at all, so they all just wallflower'ed at the VIP table we were given. Understandable, since it’s a fairly niche taste. But I wasn't gonna just sit around, drink, and posture the entire night. Even though it wasn't my scene, I was gonna at least try to put myself out there. I peeked over the railing to look down at the crowd to see what I’d be in for. Clearly, there was no real expectation that people have any sort of rhythm whatsoever; if I wanted to dance all I had to do was thrash and headbang.

I made a solo mission straight to the dancefloor, but before I could even make my way down the stairs I got stopped by two supposedly straight guys, one after the other, who both told that they’d fuck me if they were gay. I was all like thanks bro, I appreciate it, and kept it moving. I made the way to the front of the stage and placed myself squarely in the center of the moshpit where dudes were getting tossed around like dirty clothes in a washing machine. I jumped straight in and got sent flying. I swear I got like half a second of hang time... Everyone was so chill, though. The mosh was quite violent, yet without malice. A black guy picked me up and showed me how to brace my arms to keep thrashers at bay. Apparently he used to be a bouncer. Moshing was almost cathartic, much in the same way playfighting as a young boy was.

I could only be happily assaulted like this for so long, so I stepped outside the circle and back into the regular crowd. Like magic, a third of my group was there dancing besides me, and lo and behold Kitty was with them. I was greeted warmly, and we all danced together with the crowd. I noticed the guy she came with was dancing on her. And also one of the other girls we were with. I wasn’t sure what their relationship was, but since they were comfortable with this dude, I assumed that a) he must be just a friend, and b) they'd probably be okay with me doing the same.

It took some time since it was so goddamned packed, but I finally eased my way next to her. I tested the waters, taking Kitty and the other girl's hand and dancing together with them, letting the moment rise and fade naturally. Since that went well, I decided to start escalating on Kitty. I eased my way behind her, slowly but surely. I made it there, but hesitated. This was the first time I'd ever try to dance on a girl. The usual anxieties kicked in - "what if she thinks I'm a creep, blah blah blah" - but I knew not making a move would be creepy in of itself. So I went in, putting my hands on her hip. Then met my hips with hers. I tried to match her rhythm so we were in sync. I drew out the moment, letting the tension and the music ramp up. She was comfortable, she was vibing, so I knew it was time to take charge.

Reveling in the opportunity to finally step into my element, I slid my hands to the front of her hips and pulled her into me. She was receptive, leaning her head into mine, which had I given a fuck about my height would’ve been slightly awkward as she was a bit taller than me. The primal energy of the rumbling basslines, rattling hi hats, dudes thrashing and shoving in the mosh, etc. lent itself perfectly to the sexual tension that was ramping up between us. I ran my hands over her body - from her hips, down to the sides of her thighs, back up to her midsection. Just feeling it out... Her friends were right next to her, so I wasn’t gonna escalate any further as not to make her look slutty (and by extension, feel slutty). This act was getting stale though, so I broke away from the group and made my way back up.

I milled about and wallflower'ed with my friends for about 15 to 20 minutes. Eventually Kitty came back up with us. She was talking to a guy for a bit, but he left her sitting alone to rest. So I sat in his place.

Her: “I’m tired, that was such a workout.”

Me: “Same.”
Me: ...
Me: “Wanna go again?”

Her: “Uh, I dunno..."

Persisting in my insistence, I told her “this will probably be the last time we get to do this this year. Let’s just go.” "Ok” she replied, nice and chipper. She walked behind me. I figured I should take her by the hand - a man must lead, after all - so I grabbed and let our fingers intertwine and lock. Pushed my way into the densely packed crowd with her in tow, making sure to do so with confidence and authority. When we made our way in, we picked up right where we left off. I escalated further, letting my hands journey all over her body, squeezing her tits and ass along the way. I was getting horny, and I let my instincts kick in my spinning her around so we'd be were face to face. Our foreheads were pressed together, she was smiling and giggling, and we were kissing before I knew it.

We made out like this for a while, me grabbing her ass, getting real intense, but friends came. I made my way off the dancefloor, and 10 minutes later the club would close. Everyone rode back separately back to birthday girl's place, and since Misanthrope Mark wanted to fuck this girl he'd been fucking on and off for the past few years, it was time to head back home (he was driving). Right before I left, Kitty asked for my number. I gave it to her, texted her the next day - "nice seeing you yesterday - XO" - but no response.

Not a lost cause by any means, I'm sure we'll pick up where we left off since we'll definitely see each other again.

What did you accomplish during this outing? How can you replicate these successes in the future?
I've never even attempted a dance floor seduction (I hardly ever go out), nor have I really done much social circle game... I do daygame almost exclusively, for a variety of reasons that I'll explain in another post (none of which have to do with my unwillingness to do so, I fully acknowledge that I'll need to start cross-gaming if I wanna be a well-rounded seducer). So I'm happy with the way things turned out tonight... seems like I do have the social chops to pull it off if I can find my way into the right scenes.

Where can you tell you can use some improvement? (something was wrong/off, you have a good idea of what it was)
I'm sure if you read this, you're probably wondering "why the fuck is this FR so long, for just one girl?" I know, I know... but it's a milestone event full of firsts for me, so I had to be as detailed as possible so I can come back to this and maybe learn something. Nevertheless, I should've talked to more girls, even just one. It's not like there weren't cute girls there, cute girls outside of my group. But to be honest, I was paralyzed by fear and ignorance. I had no idea what to do - everyone seemed to be locked to the group they came with, and no one was really socializing like that - or at least, I perceived it that way. Yet there's no way I could really know unless I tried.

Was there anything about today’s events that you found particularly interesting or noteworthy?

Game is not a conscious thing. It can be abstracted into rational concepts of conscious thought, but the GOAL is to internalize a paradigm, to flip a switch and let you subconscious do the work. Basically, learning to trust your instinct, but choosing which instincts.

Whoever said that... yeah, he's right. There were a lot of firsts for me tonight, and one thing I noticed that I'm starting to trust and rely on my instincts rather than trying to intellectualize everything like I used to do.
 

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Tool-Bearing Hominid
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2 Weeks Ago - Thursday, September 30, 2021​

The first week of post-COVID attendance has finally kicked off. It was so nice to see people out and about, and nicer still that everyone seemed to be fairly relaxed. There were many students walking around without masks on, hanging on their wrists, what have you. No one seemed to care all that much. No widespread paranoia, busybody students, or campus police coming out of nowhere to enforce the mask mandate... it’s gratifying as hell to see that the university isn’t even bothering to try, even though they very well could. Two years without their precious housing fees probably made them a little more... accommodating, to say the least.

There were just... so many girls. I already felt like there were more women than men to begin with, but the male:female ratio was so outrageously skewed that it seemed almost intentional on the university’s part. Indeed, as Chase predicted there is admission crisis brewing in American universities: men are just opting out of college en masse. And it really shows. While the numbers may say 60/40, it felt much closer to 70/30.

I was getting a lot of approach invitations, or at least looks from the girls. I'm sure it was because I had my fashion game on lock, which I made sure not to slack on so women would take me seriously. I went out with my white leather All Star 2's, grey chinos, watch, and a navy/white floral print t-shirt which wore neatly tucked in.

I don’t know when exactly, and it wasn’t intentional, but I fell into the habit of opening indirect-direct with a simple “hi, how are you?” It’s amazing how effective this has been, I’ve noticed it allows me to hook harder and more often in comparison to just opening straight with “thought you were cute, wanted to say hi”. This opener is context dependent, of course; approaching on campus is essentially street game, but at a slower pace, so this kind of opener works better here. Anyhow, I talked to 5 girls within 45 minutes; every single one hooked and 3 gave me their number. One of the girls even launched right into conversation without me even having to prod her, as if we knew each other for quite some time already.
 
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