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2005-11-15T17:41:59Z

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Regarding your edits to the article [[Agahnim]], I noticed that there were 2 edits in which the only change that was made to the article was to de-wikify the term [[Drachaeus]]. May I ask why this was done, even after the first edit was rolled back? Wikis are generally considered to be a useful resource because each page can have a number of links to other pages, which in turn makes the wiki easier to navigate.

If you have a good reason why you'd like to see that link removed, feel free to comment here or on the article's talk page at [[Talk:Agahnim]]. Thanks, --[[User:Dmuth|Dmuth]] 03:53, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)

It's my name, and I don't want it linked. There isn't anything to link it to. It doesn't contribute to this wiki, and I would be offended if it did.

Agahnim

2005-11-14T19:01:34Z

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[[Image:Self_portrait_at_Nassau_Hall.jpg|right]]'''Agahnim''', also known as '''Aggie''', '''Anhinga''' or '''Cayro''', is a 21-year-old [[artist]] and [[writer]] named '''Jonathan Kane''', who exists on the fringes of the [[furry]] community. He currently lives and attends college in the [[wikipedia: Princeton,_New_Jersey|Princeton]] area of [[wikipedia: New_Jersey|New Jersey]]. Most of his art and writing relates to [[wikipedia:Paleontology|paleontology]], [[wikipedia:Evolution|evolution]], and the origin of [[wikipedia:Birds|birds]], particularly in order to make fun of [[wikipedia: Creationist|creationists]] for their failure to understand these topics. His art also often shows influence from the furry community and role-playing [[wikipedia: Video_game|video games]] from the early- and mid- 1990s, particulary [[wikipedia: Chrono_trigger|Chrono Trigger]] and the [[wikipedia: Legend_Of_Zelda|Legend of Zelda]] series, the name “Agahnim” being a reference to the latter.

==Personal history==

Agahnim has been diagnosed with [[wikipedia:Asperger's syndrome|Asperger's syndrome]] by Charles Cartwright, a neurologist at the [[wikipedia: University_of_Medicine_and_Dentistry_of_New_Jersey | University of Medicine and Dentistry]] hospital in [[wikipedia: Newark,_New_Jersey|Newark]]. This may explain some of the unusual traits and mannerisms for which he is known.

This, and a series of bad experiences at various high schools to which Agahnim has gone, have caused Agahnim to be hospitalized at several points for [[wikipedia: Clinical_depression|depression]] and/or [[wikipedia: Obsessive-compulsive|obsessive-compulsive disorder]]. This also led to him being prescribed with a number of [[wikipedia: Psychiatric_drugs|psychiatric drugs]] which altered his behavior further. He ceased taking these at the end of 2003, but may have not yet completely recovered from their effects.

==Communities==

The online community in which Agahnim is most active is the [[dinosaur]] [[RPG]] community, which revolves around creating dinosaur [[character]]s and writing fictional scenarios in which they interact with characters created by other members. However, Agahnim rarely participates in these RPGs themselves, primarily because of the creative liberties taken in most of them and his own preference for strict accuracy in portrayals of dinosaurs. He has several enemies in this group because of this fact, as well as because of his rivalry with Drachaeus, another member of the same community.

In spring of 2004, Agahnim and [[Crow]] (the administrator of one such forum) developed a romantic interest in one another. They met each other offline for the first time in August of that year, and currently consider themselves one another’s boyfriend and girlfriend.

Agahnim occasionally participates in the mainstream paleontology community. However, he rarely posts at [http://gondolend.proboards34.com/ Gondolend], the most popular forum in this community, due to a disagreement with the forum’s administrator dating from summer of 2003. The nature of this revolved around a religious debate between him and one of the forum’s other members, which Agahnim brought up during a discussion about the administrator’s father who had recently passed away. The psychiatric drugs Agahnim was taking during summer of 2003 may partially account for this mistake.

Agahnim also participates frequently in the [http://www.christianforums.com/f70-creation-evolution.html creationism vs. evolution] section of [http://www.christianforums.com/ Christian Forums] where he specializes in debunking creationists’ claims about topics related to dinosaurs.

==Projects==

Agahnim has created and managed several major online projects. The most successful of these is a Yahoo! group about dinosaur reproduction which he runs together with Tim Isles, a [[wikipedia: Zoologist|zoologist]] from the [[wikipedia: United_Kingdom|United Kingdom]]. This group contains several people who wish to study the topic from a scientific perspective, as well as a number of furries, some of which may have a [[fetish]] for this topic. This reflects Agahnim’s goal to provide a common ground for these two groups.

Agahnim’s other major online project is the creation of a dinosaur RPG founded entirely on information gathered from scientific articles regarding paleontology, although this has proven less successful. Although the RPG itself has been created on three separate occasions, in all three cases it was abandoned shortly afterwards due to problems with the website where it was hosted. These include:

* '''Terribleclaw.com''', which was shut down as a result of being spammed by Bobby Plank, the ex-boyfriend of the webmaster’s sister.
* '''Deinok.com''', which was abandoned due to its webmaster breaking into online accounts at other websites belonging to the people who posted there.
* '''Snakebird.net''', Agahnim’s own website, which was defaced several times by the Deinok.com webmaster.

==Art and writing==

[[Image:JanusCayroIcon.gif|left|frame|A feathered dinosaur with a character from Chrono Trigger—an example of Agahnim’s art.]]Agahnim’s most influential piece of writing is [http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/18482698/ Ned the Creationist], a poem describing a [[wikipedia: Fundamentalist_Christianity|fundamentalist Christian]] and his refusal to acknowledge even the most obvious evidence in contradiction to his viewpoint. This poem briefly acquired a cult following among members of the online paleontology community in spring of 2003. It is likely inspired by Agahnim’s experience at [http://www.timothychristian.org/ Timothy Christian school], a fundamentalist Christian high school to which Agahnim went during 11th grade. This experience also served as the inspiration for [http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14982401/ Dinosaurs are Still here], Agahnim’s most popular piece of writing during the past few months.

The majority of Agahnim’s visual art involves dinosaurs and their relationship to birds, particularly those of them that are considered [[wikipedia: Transitional_fossil |transitional species]] such as [[wikipedia: Dromaeosaurid|dromaeosaurids]]. In September 2005 he was accepted to display his art in the [http://dino.lm.com/ Dinosauricon], although his [http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=aggie gallery] currently contains only the single image with which he was first accepted to the site, probably because the slow approval process for new uploads.

==Internet drama==

In addition to his artwork and online projects, Agahnim is known for his involvement in several internet dramas that resulted from what he considered his online presence being threatened by another individual. His most common tactic during these dramas is to act as an [http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/archivist.htm archivist], keeping careful records of what people do and say online in order to present counterexamples when someone makes a claim with which he disagrees.

===Agahnim vs. Tengu===

The first of these dramas involved [[Tengu_(person)|Tengu]], the former webmaster of terribleclaw.com, who attempted to impersonate Agahnim at [http://clouds.proboards16.com/index.cgi Clouds], the now-defunct Orbyss.net forum, and her own forum [http://www.drunkentengu.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi Drunken Tengu]. This also involved Tengu and [[Hunter Green]] posting digitally edited versions of Agahnim’s copyrighted material at [[Eat All Furries]], and Agahnim was banned from the forum after threatening legal action against the members doing this. Several months later, Agahnim evaded his ban together with one or more other previously banned members in order to spam the forum, which was shut down a few hours later. However, the EAF administrators have claimed that this shutdown was intentional and had been planned in advance, which if true means that it was probably unrelated to the spam attack.

During the course of this drama, another member of Eat All Furries known as Drachaeus broke into Agahnim’s accounts at [[DeviantART]], [[LiveJournal]] and [http://www.fictionpress.com/ Fictionpress], deleted the contents of all three of them, and used them for himself in order to mock Agahnim for several weeks. This led to a second drama revolving around Drachaeus, as well as Agahnim distributing the IP addresses of the EAF members who had violated Agahnim’s copyrights, with the intention that this might lead to their accounts being attacked as well.

===Agahnim vs. Drachaeus===

Shortly after defacing Agahnim’s online accounts, Drachaeus proceeded to deface the Gondolend forum as well as online accounts belonging to several of its members, including [http://archosaurian.deviantart.com/journal/2835796/ Mike Hanson], [http://hairen.deviantart.com/journal/2923004/ Ivan Kwan], and [http://mattmart.deviantart.com/journal/2885087/ Matt Martyniuk]. Because several members of Gondolend initially blamed Agahnim for these attacks, Agahnim made it his goal to find the actual culprit, and accomplished this approximately two weeks later.

However, the fact that the culprit was the webmaster of Deinok.com caused several members of the forum at this site to begin questioning the safety of allowing their forum to be hosted there. In October 2004, the forum was moved to [http://www.snakebird.net/ Snakebird.net], Agahnim’s own website. Snakebird.net was subsequently defaced several times by the Deinok.com webmaster, and the ensuing drama revolved around proving whether or not Drachaeus was indeed the person responsible for these attacks. This drama culminated in April of 2005, when the [http://cbi.state.co.us/ Colorado Bureau of Investigation] visited Drachaeus’s apartment after tracking IP addresses associated with several of these attacks. However, this drama has recurred at several points after this due to individuals refusing to acknowledge that Drachaeus was the individual responsible for this, and Agahnim’s own insistence that others accept the conclusion drawn by the CBI.

Agahnim and several of Drachaeus’s other victims have also claimed that their computers were infected with [[wikipedia: Trojan horse (computing)|Trojans]] during the course of these attacks, the most notable of these being the Gondolend administrator [http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=Gondolendian Will Svensen]. However, because this cannot be observed directly in the same manner as the defacement attacks against his victims’ websites, it is more difficult to verify.

==External links==

*[http://www.snakebird.net Snakebird.net], Agahnim's website.
*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paleo_erotica/ Paleo Erotica], Agahnim’s Yahoo group.
*[http://agahnim.deviantart.com Agahnim's DeviantART], Agahnim's art and writing.
*[http://www.livejournal.com/users/agahnim/ Agahnim's LiveJournal], which contains personal information about him as well as information regarding any internet dramas he may be involved in.

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Agahnim

2005-11-13T23:50:14Z

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