Thanks to Hexaract for the question!
You know, If I could patch my life finances and career prospects, and the prior decade of poor financial decisions in my life I would patch that 100%
Or maybe the horrific social, political, and economic nightmare we find ourselves in during this wonderful year of 2025, I would have liked to patch that a few times. Maybe not have a psychotic president at the helm of the United States but it is what it is…
Figured while this wasn’t an entirely serious question I do sometimes get asked where the name I often use online comes from, “Hobo Patch”. Really its actually a bit of a recent name! When I first made an online account it was named 2slo2bro, then over the years between 2012 and 2016 I cycled through a lot of names! Lazyservine, Aethervine, Clockworkservine, Lazysnake, and for a while ShaggyDragon as some of my now distant family members used to call me Shaggy.
So for a while, particularly when I started work on the DragonScape my online username was TheShaggyDragon, then after a stint of homelessness in Oregon it became TheShaggyHobo… Had to take that time in stride! But some time around 2021 or so I felt Patches was an overall better nickname, felt it fit me better as a lot of people I know in real life often describe me as a bit of a messy, stitched together type of guy.
And so the Username eventually became HoboPatches! There are variations of course! ThePatchedHobo for Furraffinity, ThePatcheDragon for e621, HoboPatch, HoboPatches, or just Patches they all work fine enough for me!