Kashidom

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Kashidom
Public picture of Kashidom at home
personal information
name	Kashidom Daheo Nenakh
alias	Jenna Berry
born	6 December 1985
birthday	13 February 1987
gender	intersex
additional information
fursona(s)	Jenna Berry (including Buff-Jen and Herm-Jen)
	Kashidom Nenakh
	Nick
website	Mantha Designs incorporated

Kashidom Daheo Nenakh (Jenna Berry) is an intersex Belgian furry and were artist, born in 1985. Sie works in various expressive media from real to digital and from painting to design, as well as website design, application development and User Interface design.

Contents 1 Fursonas 1.1 Kash 1.2 Nick 1.3 Jen 1.4 Alternate characters 2 Artist 2.1 Styles 3 Hobbies 3.1 Starflight 4 Computer nerd 4.1 Computer history 4.2 Development achievements 4.2.1 Freelife 4.2.2 Pine 4.3 Computer linguistics 5 Raising a company 5.1 Howling Wolf Company 5.2 Mantha Designs incorporated 5.3 Fruitcake Magazines 6 Medical conditions and their social influences 6.1 Physical sex and gender 6.2 Water allergy 6.3 Analog mind 7 References 8 External links

Fursonas

Kashidom's fursonas were originally divided into three distinct characters, illustrating the three aspects of hir mind:

• Kashidom, a male werewolf,
• Nick, an intersex anthro wolf,
• Jenna, a female furry Wollie

First, there was Kash, this was the main character from youth. Then came Nick, since it was discovered that Kashidom was an intersex. And last added, was the bright-colored Jen, which had first shown up in Second Life.

Kash

Full name: Kashidom Daheo Nenakh - pronounced casheedom d'heyo nenak' in UK English

Kash was an idea, based on some of the physical similarities between werewolves in books and Kashidom hirself: having a unibrow, heavy hair-grow, equal-length middle and ring finger and various other similarities. Later, the idea of Kash was reshaped thrice until finally resulting in a pagan, bright-gray werewolf, while some of the features were modified or grown out by aging up. The first images appearing of Kash were rather violent and filled with hatred, disgust and death-loving loathe towards hir fellow students and teachers. This was the result of a distorted childhood, being forced into a male-patterned lifestyle. Later, when Kashidom was expelled from school, peace was found and the images started to turn into a brighter, more friendly and nature-loving light.

Nick

Full name: Nick - pronounced nik in US English

Nick is merely the result of a coloration of a green-ish male wolf^[1] by Kashidom, right before the diagnosis of hir intersex gender orientation. The nickname "Nick" was created in an instant, being a derivation from hir real name, to suit the character at the time.

Jen

Full name: Jenna Berry - pronounced gen or yenna berry in US English

The creation of Jen must be the most noticeable change in Kashidom's history as an artist. Between all the gray and white, suddenly the bright pink, utterly hyperactive puppy appeared. Originally, Jenna was one of two natural sides of Kashidom's split personality. Jenna's birthday was on February 13, 1987 and Kashidom is convinced that this is the day hir spirit was "given" to hir. Now, after both of hir personalities merged in 2008 due to hormone treatment (see the "Physical sex and gender" section on this page), Kashidom still celebrates this birthday as a tribute to how Jenna changed hir life.

Jenna, as a character, was created in 2005, when Kashidom had first tried out the world of Second Life as Ret Gretzky, an account that was donated to her by a friend. On May 26, 2006, Kashidom had created hir own account, Jenna Berry, which is still in use and is also the source of Jenna's last name, Berry.

Alternate characters

Buff-Jen is a variant and spin-off twist of/on Jen(na) and was created by Kashidom's friend, Miqu. Sie portrays the new public face of Kashidom as an intersex.

A hermaphrodite version, Herm-Jen, exists as well, which is for private purposes and was suggested by Miqu as a more interesting alternative to Buff-Jen.

Buff-Jen is now Kashidom's main character.

Artist

Kashidom has been an artist since October 29, 2002 and uses the variety of artist communities, such as deviantART and Fur Affinity, to expose hir works to the broad public of the internet. There were also a few auctions on FurBid. Kashidom's work is mainly in the digital categories, because sie uses the computer nearly all the time for any applicable purpose.

Even though sie has a broad collection of art materials, it's rare for Kashidom to upload any real media pieces. This is mainly because sie rarely works with these media and techniques. In the past, before sie had a tablet, Kashidom made nearly all hir artwork in real media with the use of pencils, aquarelle paint and ink. There are also only two pieces on canvas, that were created by hir hand: one given up, the other preserved from finishing because it was "too nice," according to hirself.

Kashidom has worked with a broad set of art programs, tools and media which results in a wide range of experience. Learning new techniques and styles has always been a key procedure in hir art, sometimes resulting in a dramatic change from one work to the next. This is most noticeable when looking at hir website designs and interfaces. In one night, sie can learn a programming language, change a basic design into a professional design or redo an entire design image. This is another result of hir compulsive behavior towards hobbies, which often leads to hours of physical inactivity and sometimes even days without getting up, sleep or nutrition.

Styles

In the past, Kashidom has had a lot of art styles, copying anything sie liked, regardless of content or copyright. Now sie only copies parts of the images instead of the images as a whole and sie draws everything from own hand. Sie didn't get into trouble for the copying of any styles as to date. However, Kashidom has received a complaint about the coloration of an image^[2], once.

Also, Kashidom loves to work in different themes, styles and poses. However, sie refuses to do anything related to mating, yiff or other sexual content. This is not because of the lack of interest, sie rather likes to see it from other's hand.

Hobbies

Kashidom often appears as a "smart ass," knowing little about a lot of things and lots about a few. This comes from the endless interest in learning that sie has. Sie likes to learn each and every hobby that sie can, hoping to one day know enough to live without nearly any help from others.

Starflight

This learning obsession came from a strange angle: StarFlight^[3], a movie about a commercial atmosphere plane, which was designed to fly to the edge of space and return safely. As the plane hit a piece of rocket debris, its hull punctured and lost orbit. When a board attendant tried to transfer from the plane to a Space Shuttle, he forgot to push the "lock" button to release the door mechanism, before closing it. This maneuver, caused due to the lack of knowledge, resulted in disaster as the capsule drifted into space.

With this error in mind, Kashidom is always trying to prevent a disaster by being one step ahead of the trouble that awaits hir. Sometimes sie fails in this and then studies the subject thoroughly until sie knows every detail about what happened and why it went wrong, in an attempt to prevent this from happening in the future.

Computer nerd

Kashidom is often found around computers, either repairing or using them. Sie is a high-level programmer and manages to do all of the tasks sie needs to do on a computer to restore, fix, patch or wipe it from unwanted software. With computers, Kashidom possesses an unlimited amount of patience, only giving up after days of stressful issues, mishaps and failure.

Computer history

Kashidom has used following Operating Systems:

• By Microsoft, sorted in order of release:
  • Windows 3.11: Classic, used for a few months
  • Windows 3.12: Classic, used for a few weeks
  • Windows NT 4.0: Discontinued, used for a few weeks
  • Windows 95: Discontinued, used for about a year
  • Windows 98: Discontinued, used for two years
  • Windows 98 Second Edition (98/SE): Discontinued, 1999-2008
  • Windows Millennium edition (Me): Discontinued, 2001-2004
  • Windows 2000 (NT 5.0): Active, 2002-2008
  • Windows xp (NT 5.1): Active, 2002-present
  • Windows Vista (NT 6.0): Active, 2007-present
• by RedHat:
  • Fedora Core 4: 2004-2006
  • Fedora Core 5: 2006-2008
• by Apple:
  • Mac OS X Tiger (10.4): 2006-present
  • Mac OS X Leopard (10.5): 2008-present
  • Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6): 2009-present

Classic, Discontinued and Active are a reference to the support Microsoft delivers.

As the name states, Classic and Discontinued are no longer supported by their vendors.

Development achievements

Kashidom has been a member of a few JavaScript-HTML-based Operating Systems projects on the internet, but as time passed these projects were dismissed or given up on. Most of Kashidom's co-developers of such projects were focusing on server-side Operation, while Kashidom was more interested in client-side Operation. Sie developed almost all of hir programs for Windows-only purposes, because this was "the most insecure Operating System available at the time, allowing us to write nearly anything we wish to execute, resulting in a fully functional application," according to Kashidom.

Freelife

Hoping that one day sie would get a release finished, Kashidom also started working on hir own Operating System, codenamed Freelife. This project was given up not very long after starting development.

The basic engine was created and on top of that was a version entitled Freelife NP, where "NP" stands for NewProgram edition. This was named after a website-based program sie made, that was displayed to the public of a developer forum^[4]. The feedback on NewProgram was so positive, Kashidom immediately started working on a new version, with more powerful treats and abilities. Unfortunately, both versions were lost in data-backup error after a systems crash and were never recovered. However, the result of the Freelife project does still exist.

Pine

Even while Freelife NP was still unfinished, Kashidom soon began developing another website-based Operating System project, codenamed Pine OS, which was similar to but more powerful and complete than Freelife NP. Even though more powerful and with a better finish, the only completely designed and built application was its installation program. The project still stands until today and is closed from the grand public. Until further notice the development has stopped entirely.

Computer linguistics

After studying simple HTML through various websites^[5] and books, Kashidom learned a lot more computer~ or programming languages. Sie prefers to know everything about one language until the point where advancing is impossible, before moving on to learning the next one. Kashidom only learns what sie needs, to reach hir goal and complete the application sie is working on. If an application is getting too complex or broken, it is often seen that Kashidom starts all over with the work, trying to build it up in a different way, to complete it after all.

Having an enormous patience, Kashidom has reached a lot on the field of computers. Sie is able to build, install, setup and configure a computer from scratch in a very short time. Kashidom often forgets to bring hir data storage media to the computer's location and is forced to then write the applications anew in the fresh installation, before execution is possible. This mostly applies to modifiers, scanners and wipers, which sie makes frequently, to increase stability and functionality of various Windows systems.

Here is a list of the computer languages known to Kashidom:

• Web languages:
  • HTML: HyperText Markup Language, the standard for website creation
  • XHTML: EXtensible Markup Language, the newer, XML-enforced, website creation language
  • CSS: Cascading StyleSheets, modifier for HTML layout and style
  • JavaScript: Scripting that interacts with the client-side browser
  • ASP: Advanced Server Pages, Windows-ISS server-side scripting
  • PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, server-side scripting and HTML preprocessor
• System languages:
  • MS-DOS: Also referred to as Batch, terminal interactive scripting
  • JScript: JavaScript for Windows Script Host, strong and solid system scripting
  • VBScript: Visual Basic Script, runs under Windows Script Host and works like JScript
  • VB6: Visual Basic, visual application writing language
  • Q-Basic: Quick Basic, low-level DOS-application programming language
  • C: C or ANSI-C, industry-standard, low-level application programming language
• Registry Editor scripting for Windows
• INF and INI scripting for Windows
• SQL, popular standardized database software

Raising a company

Mantha Designs, the non-profit organization that Kashidom owns, was originally named Howling Wolf Company.

Howling Wolf Company

The Howling Wolf Company was founded October 29, 2002. Under the Howling Wolf Company, Kashidom and a few others released their projects and works to the grand public of the internet, much like an online community such as deviantART, only smaller and far less popular.

The Howling Wolf Company eventually grew out, adding website design and general design to its productions. The intended mini-community grew out so much that it became too large to stay on a low-space server and had to move to a bigger one. Better hosting and an own domain-name^[6] were a must-have and were purchased. Unfortunately, the service provider was too expensive and was canceled again after nearly a year of service.

Mantha Designs incorporated

On July 14, 2006 (earliest appearance of an image,) Kashidom had renamed the company to Mantha Designs. This was because of financial instability by a company named Howling Wolf (without the Company at the end,) a similar name to that of the Howling Wolf Company. This caused the fund raiser of Howling Wolf to contact Kashidom about payments to bills that were never made. To finish this off once and for all, Kashidom decided to rename the company in agreement with the other members, which caused the majority of them to leave the former company.

Mantha Designs then needed a logo, a website, domain-name^[7] and more users and customers. Of course, thanks to being new, no one knew about Mantha Designs at that time, thus no customers or users joined and funds were down, so everything was taken down once again. Until this date, Mantha Designs is only an idea with a name, an icon, a website and two people supporting it.

Fruitcake Magazines

Recently, Kashidom -along with hir friend Miqu- has founded another company, to publish various magazines. One of them is Fluff Magazine,^[8] featuring news and updates in- and outside of the furry fandom as well as a comic named "Fluff!", following the random life of Jenna and surrounding characters.

The name Fruitcake refers to two mutual characteristics between both Miqu's character Maria and Kashidom's character Jen(na). It is based on the common verbal expression of "being a fruitcake" ("being crazy" -which in turn points at their insane hyperactivity) and refers to their fruity-flavored perfume.

As of January 2009, Fruitcake Magazines has been canceled and brought down. The project and company have been resolved.

Medical conditions and their social influences

Physical sex and gender

Kashidom experiences hir genders in a separated way, meaning that hir male and female side are differentiated from each other. However, Kashidom is in no aspect heterosexual, regardless of gender. The reason for this is assumed to prevent reproduction. This orientation might change when, and if, sie will have a castration done.

Born an assumed boy, Kashidom was raised in the social lifestyle patterns of a man to come. When intersexuality was diagnosed around age thirteen, when breast formation started to appear, Kashidom started to doubt this lifestyle pattern and didn't feel to fit well into hir own body. As doctors advised to take hormones and stop the growth of female parts, both Kashidom and hir mother refused to take action. They sat out these changes and learned to live with them. Around age seventeen, testosterone took over and male development proceeded, resulting in Kashidom's current appearance. Later, at age twenty-one, when this was legally possible, Kashidom consulted medical aid in support of hir feminine development with complimentary hormone treatment, which stabilized a variety of diseases and conditions, soothed hir restless spirit and regularized hir life.

Water allergy

Kashidom suffers one of the rarest of medical conditions, which can only be explained as water allergy or aquagenic urticaria.

This rare condition increases intervals between shower or bathing sessions and can only be treated by a cocktail of medications, taken on strict timing related to showering. Because of this cocktail of medications, showering is limited to one session for every two weeks, to protect the liver from taking irreversible damage. The condition has been diagnosed, but treatment does not exist in Belgium, where Kashidom resides at this time. As a direct reason of this condition, Kashidom is very rarely social and does not go out in rain or swim. Sie does not like to wear thick clothing in warm environments and since society around hir does not accept intersex people, Kashidom is often forced to wear covering clothing in any climate.

Analog mind

Kashidom also has a condition known as visual thinking, in which sie thinks in analog computer logic, compared to what sie calls "linear human logic", which most other people possess. This leads to static in social communication from and to Kashidom and may lead to conflicting expressions and emotions. As a result of this analog mind, Kashidom is convinced sie has no refined emotions, other than the basic five, and has to simulate these to be able to communicate better with humans. This is often dismissed by Kashidom as "having no soul," derived from an explanation of a childhood teacher, who said that "everyone has emotions, because everyone has a soul."

References

1. ↑ This character re-appeared for the first time in "Old: PhotoShop experience nr 1" by Kashidom on deviantART
2. ↑ "JenKitty (color)" by Kashidom on FurAffinity
3. ↑ StarFlight: The Plane That Couldn't Land on IMDb
4. ↑ "SITE REVIEW: TheProgram - Howling Wolf Company" by Kashidom Nenakh on OZZU Webmaster Forum
5. ↑ W3Schools is a resource to learn web development
6. ↑ Howling Wolf Company.com (closed down, see the archive on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
7. ↑ Matha Designs.net
8. ↑ Fluff Magazine Online (closed down)

External links

This person is a WikiFur user: Kashidom's user page Kashidom's talk page

• Kashidom's journal on LiveJournal
• Kashidom on deviantART
• Kashidom on Fur Affinity
• Jenna.fur, Kashidom's dotFUR closed down, due to the cancelation of the .FUR domain name by OpenNIC members
• Kashidom Daheo Nenakh's Resume on eMurse