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Perfume Genius's avatar

i love all of you, i am being the little doctor and will respond as many as i can!!

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for everybody in love with their best friend....that's called being gay.....https://open.spotify.com/track/1DfRCC2qpjjzc6l5DmTjkG?si=4c3c65a860834265

Estre's avatar

thank you it’s about time to rewatch the music video

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a lot of you are coming to me with actual aches and pains in the lower back, legs, we even have a concussion in the chat..... this one is for all my girls with somethin physical going on: blood rose by tori amos https://open.spotify.com/track/4TB1VONcmN1kmzcgMwraZ0?si=d59209dd0f824434

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i have to go for tonight, i'll check back in tomorrow

Tommy's avatar

waiting on results from a job interview but also wanting to transform into a goat and live on a mountain

electric__naan's avatar

Unsure if you're still active here, but I decided literally this morning that if you don't record a cover of this song I will simply PASS AWAY xxx

Ben's avatar

And he DID‼️

Ben's avatar

And he DID ‼️

Elan's avatar

You just did. Played nothing at all out of the blue 3 minutes ago. Sated. Thanks again,

JW's avatar

I need someone to kiss my forehead and I do not have someone to kiss my forehead

Colin's avatar

recovering from a bone marrow transplant (thanks sister) to treat aplastic anemia

grayson's avatar

waiting for your misha article

Grace Caiazza's avatar

wait I currently have covid and am being held in isolation in a college dorm room. The only contact with the outside world that I have is to wave a silk scarf to my lovers and friends out the window. Other than that I twice a day receive meals from my minder/guard Maureen who always winks at me when she says “have a nice night”, which I think has given me Stockholm syndrome. Please send help. I am VERY bored with the wig I brought with me.

Hilary's avatar

can't remember the last time I felt safe

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i'm sorry. a lot of Stars of the Lid sound very womblike, hope it can build a little coziness and you find somewhere safe soon https://open.spotify.com/track/4TrCvd1PrqI14lZb7tEtYo?si=8a68897bf82e484f

Hilary's avatar

Marvelous, thank you 🙏🏻💗

Ratitas's avatar

miel pops zu zu zu

Theo Lord's avatar

in love w my best friend lmfao

Eunoia's avatar

Compulsively procrastinating due to unresolved trauma even when it takes away from investing your time towards goals and artistry.

X.A.'s avatar

Did I write this?

Estre's avatar

ugh I feel this so hard

Colin's avatar

thank you for the 17 minutes of surreal sonic escape, you gorgeous song doctor.

Melissa G.'s avatar

I'm almost 25, just lost my 9 to 5 job with stable income, and feel super lost. I want to make art /music for a living but am afraid of taking the risk and working odd jobs to support myself right now so that I can work more on my creative practice. I'm all kinds of excited, nervous, stressed, and depressed.

Mason Lopez's avatar

John Ashbery said that essentially the desire for a god, a “sort of intendant to whom the most important tasks may be entrusted so as to leave you free for the necessary task of idleness that is a condition, the condition, of your being…” and the seeking of that intendant or administrator is not helpful and can be counterproductive in a way. But then he says that “It is better to take in a third person as a confidant, but since there is nothing to confide . . .” And he just kind of trails off but I do think in the individual search for meaning or order or control there is merit to a third person “confidant” to whom we communicate. I agree there is nothing to confide I.E. our telling doesn’t necessarily remedy larger concerns or questions BUT if he’s right and a third person would be better to turn to than god, who is that third person? The conscious mind which I try to remind myself is what “I” listen to? Or the individual other perceiver of me who effectively makes me with their perception?

Mason Lopez's avatar

also don't know what to have for dinner

Abigail Baldwin's avatar

Somehow I knew this was you before I even looked at the name

Erin's avatar

My 7 year old daughter is experiencing existential dread. Every night, she's worried about the fact that she and I will both die one day. My poor baby.

Erin's avatar

Ok. Youth's like diamonds in the sun, and diamonds are forever.

T.E.'s avatar

overwhelming loneliness & feeling behind in life

Reece Leonard's avatar

indecisiveness and self-loathing, honestly

lyds's avatar

i just want this all to mean something to someone, i guess

Perfume Genius's avatar

this sounds like one: first time ever i saw your face - roberta flack https://open.spotify.com/track/0SxFyA4FqmEQqZVuAlg8lf?si=7e2923565c9b48f3

Jody Muhammad's avatar

that felt warm and tender, thank you doc <3

Arthur Nguyen's avatar

Can’t stop procrastinating

angle's avatar

stomach pains & digestive issues :( because god gives his toughest battles to his silliest gooses :(

elle's avatar

the world is so close to falling apart, so much injustice and problems with capitalism

mari's avatar

zoloft nightmares made me dream my dead dad brought me to the tony awards and made me take a picture of him w seinfeld.. woke up and had to tutor a student ab Freud what does it all mean

mayflxwer's avatar

sleepless nights, stomach aches, sad thoughts

T.J. Salas's avatar

concussion and unrequited longing

DH's avatar

grad school is too bleak

jmb's avatar

unhealthy interpersonal dependence in relationships makes me feel broken & sad

Tori's avatar

Hello Dr. Genius. Dealing with a lot of transphobic microaggressions from my family lately. And overall never-ending gender dysphoria.

ken's avatar

I have been diagnosed with bladder cancer. Will lose my bladder, prostate and urethra. Maybe my life. What song can sooth my anxiety.

Will Speros's avatar

Trying to overcome self-doubt and believe I have the power to change like I want to

choreo horror's avatar

simply overwhelmed...by so much good and bad and between...too much

Nathan's avatar

trying to make it in a foreign city where somedays you feel amazing and others it feels like everything is x3 harder than it should be (plus gay angst lol)

alfie's avatar

transgender blues

Tangelo's avatar

I don't know how to dance anymore.

Koit's avatar

Pretty much, there is no hope...planet's fucked, etc. The more I think about it the more hopeless I become. And this is me being cheerful.

Vaffy's avatar

I miss someone that recently moved away

Samir's avatar

trying my hardest not to ask my crush out because i'm afraid of rejection

Joel Humphries's avatar

I’m in the longest covid lockdown in the world (Melbourne) and the depression is hitting hard!

Joel Humphries's avatar

This song is gorgeous. Thank you!!

Crissy Milazzo's avatar

i hate every moment of planning my wedding

jackie's avatar

my childhood trauma lol

Nicolás Sebastián's avatar

I can't get over this friend i felt in love with... I've not seen him for 4 years

give me a song to cure that pain, please