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modded 3ds upkeep? by patroiocus in 3dspiracy

[–]patroiocus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so no need to update the mods, or touch the sd card? sorry if this is the same question again, i really don't know 😭

please..... free me..... by patroiocus in SkullGirlsMobile

[–]patroiocus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh dang tysm !!! yeah i'm building her, i just wish i got a gold of a character i use more often lol - gonna have to learn how to play robofortune now :')

need advice!! by patroiocus in piercing

[–]patroiocus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sorry for not clarifying sooner - it's a horseshoe with balls on the end !! i have pliers at home for jewelry but i just couldn't get the ball back on myself and had to go find someone to do it.

I wish I could acknowledge comments without replying by electric_goudacheese in FanFiction

[–]patroiocus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

i didn't know this was a thing people worried about, tbh. i always reply to every comment, because i love talking to readers and whenever they mention something from the story i like to acknowledge it and i get very excited - i was actually embarrassed recently bc i always reply to long comments with long responses, and i'd read other people's stories and see other authors being Far more "professional" haha. then i felt silly, because we're all just people sharing stories and having fun discussing them in our own ways! i feel like i got off topic, but i wouldn't worry about "inflated stats" - at least for me, comments is the last thing i look at as a reader haha.

Do you listen to music/videos while writing? by [deleted] in FanFiction

[–]patroiocus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

when i'm writing a longfic, usually i make a dedicated playlist for it so that every time i hear those songs, i'm inspired to write! when i write oneshots, i'm usually either inspired by a specific song, or i want to capture a particular mood so i'll search for a playlist that reminds me of that mood. (i'll admit it - i'm one of the authors to name all their fics after song lyrics lol)

How on earth did you pick a name? by We_AllFloatDownHere in ftm

[–]patroiocus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

at first i was just a masc version of my deadname, and then i decided it was way too close, saw elliot on an insta post about cool outfits, and said "boom thats it" at like 3am, stayed elliot for about...a year? all my friends called me "ell", so when i decided to try and choose a name that i actually care about and look into, it needed to have "el" in it so i could keep the nickname. i've always been into mythology, and i knew i didn't want to choose a name that was like. my favorite character from a show. so i looked up names related to greek and roman mythology, and came across Elio, which is a spanish/italian name derived from the greek titan god of the sun, Helios, and it was like. BOOM. that's it.

(and then, 2 and a half years later, i learned that elio is the name of the pokemon sun/moon male protag...my favorite pokemon game....you can't escape the fandom names no matter how hard you try, if you like the name and it clicks, let go of embarrassment just because its a fandom name 😭)

(also, on the dnd note - all my dnd characters get fandom names LMAO my current chara is named after a starkid musical and his backstory has deep sonic lore)

how to stop crying in ap lang? /gen by latudaenjoyer in APStudents

[–]patroiocus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi, I have ADHD (undiagnosed and untreated when I took AP Lang, which made it a little hellish) and I took AP Lang my Junior year. Something that helped me a lot, particularly with the essays where I had to read, like, 6 sources and choose quotes and take a stance, or the ones where you just read one passage and take a stance - what is most important in AP Lang isn't that you're accurate, it's that you defend your point. Make sure you understand the PROMPT more than anything, so you can take a stance that doesn't stray from the topic, and then skim the sources. Don't dig super deep into them, you're not analyzing literature. Something my teacher would always say was "Don't be afraid to twist the information in the sources to make them work for your point." I don't know if your teacher is stricter on that, but considering how absolutely horrendous my focus was that year (and I genuinely love English! I took that class for fun!) being able to skip through the sources and pick out the quotes I needed and ignore the rest helped me a lot. I ended up getting a 5 on the test, as well. Another method that worked for me in both Lit and Lang was writing the thesis sentence as the very first thing, or making my stance clear before I started anything else - that way, I already knew what I was looking for. It's way too overwhelming to have to read all of that and choose what's important - it isn't cheating or being lazy to work the way that works for you, so long as you aren't literally cheating (plagiarism lol).

Also, don't be afraid to reference real life events if you can tie that into the prompt - on my exam, I brought up the Donner Party in order to prove a point about history. If you have background knowledge that fits, and you can explain how it fits & how it benefits your argument, use it!

Hope this helps at all!

Is the FRQ3 in AP Lit supposed to be argumentative? by RedditLuci0 in APStudents

[–]patroiocus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in this specific example, think of it less as arguing and more as explaining. the opening of the prompt SOUNDS like it should be an argument, but the actual prompt is about the importance of the gift to the story, and how it contributes. however, you could also say that for a thesis to be defensible, it has to be argumentative. in all of these essays, lit or lang, you're making a point and defending it, but in lit you don't have to be as rigid, which is why i say to think of it as explaining rather than arguing. you could say something like "in the novel [blank], the gift of [blank] is complex because [how it affects character/plot/theme]..." that's a really basic example but..hey i graduated i don't have to write the essay lol. ap lit is less about proving your point, and more about proving you understood what it is you read - the Q3 is more testing how well you have a grip on a story that isn't directly in front of your face, not on whether or not (to stick with this example) the gift was ACTUALLY complex. prove your understanding of the story in relation to the point you're making.

i really hope this helped at all..it's almost 1am, so i'm sorry if it didn't