<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Alpha Divergent: ACHY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Personal Blog]]></description><link>https://alphadivergent.com/s/achy</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ufFP!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2223b4f4-4e5d-4a6d-b8e1-4811a6bcd202_1024x1024.png</url><title>Alpha Divergent: ACHY</title><link>https://alphadivergent.com/s/achy</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:41:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://alphadivergent.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[achy rios, agent - UCC 1-207/1-308 all rights reserved]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[alphadivergent@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[alphadivergent@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Achy]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Achy]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[alphadivergent@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[alphadivergent@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Achy]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[I USED TO CRUSH PUSSY]]></title><description><![CDATA[MY 5 YEAR STINT AS A PICK UP ARTIST]]></description><link>https://alphadivergent.com/p/i-used-to-crush-pussy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alphadivergent.com/p/i-used-to-crush-pussy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Achy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:11:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/aa3d174d-e391-40d6-8a29-61e9b9b66d19_1436x957.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back in my heyday whatever the fuck that means&#8230;</p><p>I used to run around the city streets and approach women as much as humanly possible.</p><p>I don&#8217;t even feel totally comfortable talking about it now because all the effort I put into that shit did not amount to even a fuckin half way decent ROI.</p><p>I also just don&#8217;t do it now.</p><p>SURE, I learned to talk to women and see all the subtle cues but&#8230;now I just SEE them.</p><p>I see when they throw thier half-ass &#8216;clues&#8217; as me, and then I watch them get mad over time as I just ignore them.</p><p>They get more passive aggressive because not a single woman will risk saying&#8230;&#8217;I like you&#8217;.</p><p>Dumb Asses.</p><p>Some will tell me to get over it. </p><p>Fuck you.</p><p>Some of you will tell me that they ARE saying it&#8230;but with hints.</p><p>Well you know what bitch? </p><p>A hint is a hint.</p><p>Saying it is saying it</p><p>And a fucking hint AINT&#8217; fucking saying it.</p><p>All that fucking equality nonsense and you still can&#8217;t ACT equal.</p><p>Just vindictive.</p><p>Take a fucking risk bitch.</p><p>At least it shows you really mean business.</p><p>I digress&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;and when I say I digress I <em>mean</em> i digress&#8230;not some other shit okay??</p><p>Morons.</p><p>&#8230;ok ok ok ok ok&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;were calming down&#8230;</p><p>BITCH!</p><p>&#8230;and were back.</p><p>Breathe in aiiiiir&#8230;breathe out a bunch of hippie bullshit in a self-help book.</p><div><hr></div><p>But I did&#8230;I did do pick up.</p><p>I was a pick up artist. </p><p>Or whatever you wanna call that shit when you just have the balls to <mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">talk to women and strangers and pay attention to the social dynamic</mark> so you can leverage it in your favor to increase the odds of getting laid and in turn more social leverage. </p><p>That.</p><p>I did that.</p><p>It was cool. </p><p>I did get laid.</p><p>It did teach me to stand up to some real assholes. </p><p>But in all fairness, if I had just been more <mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">selective of where I spent my time</mark> I would have dealt with way less assholes and that would have had a much better effect on my general outlook on humanity. </p><p>I think most people are weak, judgmental, liars, cowards, and stupid&#8230;and it&#8217;s those very traits that keep them together as a tribe.</p><p>They don&#8217;t want to get better so they team up and approve of each other.</p><p>Now they don&#8217;t fucking have to be better.</p><p>Anyway, I learned to just walk up to groups with some good energy and some jokes and break in. </p><p>Get phone numbers and connections and dates and one night stands and threesomes.</p><p>I dated and fucked models and hot nerds and exotic dancers.</p><p>I got experiences that rich people pay for.</p><p>I also got experiences that you CAN&#8217;T pay for. </p><p>Witnessing the true nature of women that is never spoken of.</p><p>Cheating wives and girlfriends.</p><p>Women with wild sexual fantasies.</p><p>Women who were within feet of the men they were dating and willing to risk it with me.</p><p>I became that guy women loved to step into the dark with&#8230;sharing secrets and experiences.</p><p>While a ton of women are screaming about equality, or the patriarchy, or their &#8216;soft era&#8217;&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;that soft era shit makes me fucking ick with a thirst for vengance&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;while they are doing ALLLLL that&#8230;they are shooting themselves right in the cooch in the <mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">search for men</mark>. </p><p>Notice I only said MEN.</p><p>I did NOT say WORTHY MEN.</p><p>Not HIGH STATUS MEN.</p><p>Nor the SIX (foot), SIX (inch), SIX (furgure) MEN.</p><blockquote><p>MEN</p></blockquote><p>Women LOVE MEN.</p><p>Any woman who screams different can fuck and suck a robot&#8230;they already do&#8230;<mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">they are the minority and we don&#8217;t fucking care</mark>.</p><p>Women LOVE SEX.</p><p>Probably MORE than men.</p><p>The slew of videos from women wondering why men are no longer approaching are only increasing.</p><p>The women on the street who STILL don&#8217;t fucking approach but throw hints at you, even subconsciously, are everywhere.</p><p>I see them EVERY DAY.</p><p>EVERY.</p><p>DAY.</p><p>But I <mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">trained</mark> to see them.</p><p>In case you don&#8217;t believe me guys&#8230;</p><ul><li><p>Dress and smell and look as nice as you can. (<mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">LOOK HOT</mark>.)</p></li><li><p>Talk just a <mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">little louder</mark> than you normally do but don&#8217;t change how you normally speak. </p></li><li><p>Head up. </p></li><li><p>Belly forward to <mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">stay tall</mark>.</p></li><li><p>Take up space. In other words just don&#8217;t give a shit if you&#8217;re too close to somone or in a weird space. If people want to move away they can. <mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hold</mark>.</p></li></ul><p>Women can totally do this, too.</p><p><mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Don&#8217;t try at all</mark> to talk to women or get them to pay attention. </p><p>Women who like you will &#8216;purse&#8217; their lips. <em>(Not the duck lips selfie.)</em></p><p>It&#8217;s a quick prep for kissing and in this case&#8230;<mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">body language to notice</mark>.</p><p>What happens is she presses her lips together quickly to make them a bit more plump as she releases them. </p><p>Think of that final move a woman makes when she finishes applying lip gloss. </p><p>Most women don&#8217;t notice they do it. </p><p>It&#8217;s automatic. </p><p>The ones who REALLY like you will lick their lips.</p><p>LITERALLY.</p><p>Still&#8230;do nothing. </p><p>Just pay attention to the general reaction to someone who looks good, confident, and purposeful. </p><p>That&#8217;s You.</p><p>If you&#8217;re one of the gals reading this and your face is getting red hot from pure anger&#8230;</p><p>You&#8217;re welcome.</p><p>But this isn&#8217;t a tutorial.</p><p>It&#8217;s a blog post.</p><p>I wanted to emphasize the whole point that I stupidly missed when I was practicing.</p><p>Learning pick up is supposed to be about becoming <mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">whole as a person</mark>.</p><p>&#8220;Pick Up&#8221; is just a funky name for <mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">being whole</mark>.</p><p>That&#8217;s it. </p><p>But I really developed a fake personna around it.</p><p>Pick up didn&#8217;t enhance my life.</p><p>It defined it.</p><p>So I got sucked (literally and metaphorically) into a whirlwind of horrible choices, unhealthy habits, and stupid people.</p><p>It changed me in the negative because I swam too far into the deep end.</p><blockquote><p>I stopped asking myself &#8216;Who am I.&#8217; and &#8216;What do I want?&#8217;. </p><p>It was just a slew of interactions asking a single, sad question.</p><p>&#8216;Does she like me?&#8217;</p></blockquote><p>That&#8217;s it. </p><p>I did have confidence and a lot of it was real.</p><p>Men (and women) were blown away when I would walk up to a group of stranges and just shoot the shit.</p><p>By the way&#8230;I DID take some spectacular rejections. </p><p>Don&#8217;t think I just helicopter dicked my way through life.</p><p>But when you get laid a lot, the rejections are hardly noticeable&#8230;and some of those rejections turn around as well. </p><p>Still, I was trying to fill an unfillable void.</p><p>I wanted to be loved.</p><p>Nope.</p><p>I wanted to love myself.</p><p>Nope.</p><p>I wanted to TRUST myself.</p><blockquote><p><mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TRUST is the main source of fuel for all people alike.</mark></p></blockquote><p>It&#8217;s the reason kids STAY on a trajectory of success or failure as they grow up.</p><p>We trust.</p><p>&#8230;or WE DON&#8217;T.</p><p>People who trust are more open.</p><p>They are more vulnerable BECAUSE they trust the world will not beat them for being that way.</p><p>They will take on more risk because they trust the ultimate outcome will be positive&#8230;so they have patience.</p><p>Now&#8230;I DID learn to trust myself&#8230;but only in a SINGLE category.</p><p>Pick Up.</p><p>I had been through it so many times that I could even trust the rejections and the other men in competition.</p><p>I knew where the lines were and what I could cross and not cross.</p><p>Because I had a familiarity with the entire Chess board, I never had an apprehension to play the game.</p><p>I promise you that if I started to game again&#8230;it&#8217;d take at least a month for me to regain that trust. </p><p>First of all because it&#8217;s been awhile.</p><p>Second of all because I&#8217;ve had many toxic and impactful experiences with humanity.</p><p>Third, I&#8217;d be playing with an entirely different set of rules. Not externally&#8230;but internally. I changed. Same game, different player.</p><p>As I grew into my late twenties and early thirties, I still was unaware of <mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">my neurodivergence and my pattern of seeking toxic relationships</mark>.</p><p>I could never figure out why I tended to attract people who were desperate, inconsistent, angry, &#8216;willfully&#8217; blind, or manipulative.</p><p>Two reasons: </p><ul><li><p>I was most of those things. Especially inconsistent and angry.</p></li><li><p>I could not <mark data-color="#4a6741" style="background-color: rgb(74, 103, 65); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">see the pattern in myself</mark> or in those people who were my mirror. This included family, friends, and relationships. You can&#8217;t break what you can&#8217;t see.</p></li></ul><p>It wasn&#8217;t until a big old crash and burn.</p><p>I had a kid with someone I TRULY did not like. (Desperation for Attention.)</p><p>Most of my friends and family were toxic toward each other&#8230;forced behavior, little white lies, constant judgement.</p><p>I maintained a relationship with a woman who was toxic and trauma bonding for 5 years. </p><p>This meant I was also around her family and friends who were ALSO the same. </p><p>Birds of a feather&#8230;</p><p>I did not understand money and stability because I had never been educated properly on it.</p><p>I also had/have ADHD and never knew that could be an issue.</p><p>The combination of ADHD with the lack of trust puts a massive damper on your ability or desire for long term planning in any area.</p><p>Even when the money was good in my Strip Club DJ career - yes I know - I was still in panic mode and spent like a moron. </p><p>Also my direct influencers were also fucked up&#8230;so that didn&#8217;t help.</p><p>I was easily suckered by get rich quick opportunities or just treated actual businesses like get rich quick opportunities instead of being patient and building consistently.</p><p>I listened to gurus. </p><p>I met the gurus. </p><p>I worked for gurus.</p><p>They are NOT gurus.</p><p>They DON&#8217;T give a fuck about you.</p><p>Still descending&#8230;</p><p>I lost jobs.</p><p>I split from friends and family.</p><p>I split from my relationship&#8230;begrudgingly as I was still addicted.</p><p>I lost it all.</p><p>I slept in streets, cars, abandoned buildings, tents, etc&#8230;</p><p>I hopped from state to state.</p><p>I guess I could call it impromptu travelling&#8230;nope.</p><p>More like bouncing around desperately, incapable of detecting and keeping good opportunities.</p><p>But&#8230;no matter where you go&#8230;there you are.</p><p>The longer it went on&#8230;the worse it got.</p><p>The ADHD became Anxiety&#8230;</p><p>became Depression&#8230;</p><p>became Intrusive Thoughts&#8230;</p><p>became C-PTSD&#8230;</p><p>To this day, you would not know that I take meds and keep away from most people.</p><p>Women still flirt. </p><p>Men still want to talk.</p><p>I have regained myself in a lot of ways.</p><p>But there&#8217;s still much work to do.</p><p>I have every fucking right to be furious about the hand I was dealt.</p><p>So do you, if you feel that way.</p><p>But I keep pushing for all of it. </p><p>A deeper understanding of this experience.</p><p>A more wholistic version of who I am.</p><p>Do I want to grab a pair of tits and motorboat until I suffocate? </p><p>Yeah, duh.</p><p>But I want to be fully WHO I am and what I am capable of.</p><p>A drop less and I cannot be satisfied.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>