I've seen several guys on this forum hit the cancel point. Basically your SMV goes too high and chicks automatically disqualify you. Imagine you're a HB6 guy and young Pamela Anderson talks to you at a bar. You'd just assume she's passing time and will go home with Brad Pitt. Even if she does sleep with you it's just a matter of time before a better guy comes along.

Before he died, Rich Piana had to date HB10 famous fitness model Chanel Jansen. https://static1.purepeople.com/articles/5/24/88/45/@/3491647-rich-piana-et-sa-compagne-chanel-jansen-624x600-2.jpg I guess you just gotta go for higher SMV chicks instead of bar girls. I had a similar problem in Thailand.

that usually is the case: the blonde hasn't slept with you because (she has made up her mind that) you're not a good choice, and you're not a good choice because she hasn't slept with you. now, the brunette doesn't want to be the "loser" that fucks you, if the hivemind consensus is that you're not a good choice. also, just because they both seemed attracted doesn't mean they actually were; maybe they were competing for your attention to the end of some power-struggle they have going on in their duo - i.e. determining who's hotter of the two, but you personally were besides the point.

i've been focusing more on the fact that to them they are the center of the universe, and on trying to really understand the depths of their solipsism. this new perception has helped me immensely: you could literally be Brad Pitt but they're still the number one person in their lives, and if it doesn't make them happy about themselves or if it doesn't fit their narrative for today, then they won't get with you.

I'm gonna ignore the fact that you talked like a retard and get to the important stuff:

I quickly realized that I had fumbled on the blonde in the past (bag was secured until I didn’t wanna give her a straight answer on being 28) and the brunette I’m pretty sure has mutual friends I’ve fucked.

You should have been cordial, but absolutely non flirtatious. If you don't think that those two had a ladies room meeting about you, you're wrong. You hear of preselection? Well prerejection is real too. If the brunette did fuck you, it would have lowered her standing.

Having opened w “attract don’t chase”

Then you chased. Know when an L is an L.

I’m on test my muscles are absolutely popping; biceps are poking out of my sleeves, and I know I was looking devilishly handsome cause I was having girls literally come chat me up/ask to follow me on ig etc etc what the fuck man :/

So instead of giving your attention to the women who are interested in you, you focus on the two women who have social motivation to tease you and curve you publicly.

Probably attention whores. You should have just taken their number and fucked off if you can't isolate. Being 28 is nothing to be concerned about.