Agent Tomcat
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Agent Tomcat is an artist and fan fiction writer who joined FanFiction.Net in 2006.
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[edit] General biography
Agent Tomcat is the moniker created by artist and author Shawn Thornburg for use as a nickname, screen name, and persona on various websites and social networking sites. The following are his own words regarding the origin of the Agent Tomcat moniker:
Once upon a time, a little guy named Shawn (nicknamed SweetPea by his doting mother) loved to stay up and watch Nick-at-Nite. Because of Nick-at-Nite, SweetPea fell in love with a wonderful show called "Get Smart", starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon as Agents 86 and 99, respectively. Because SweetPea fell in love with "Get Smart", and because he was a rather clumsy and accident-prone little fellow, he decided to call himself Agent 86 in an attempt to shed the SweetPea nickname. The attempt failed, but SweetPea continued to call himself Agent 86 regardless. When Agent 86 grew a little older and discovered the wonders of aviation, he stumbled (because that's what he was wont to do, being clumsy and all) onto a plane called the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, which had been the United States Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor, and tactical reconnaissance platform since 1974, and he immediately fell in love with it. At the time, he didn't put the two names together, because he had never considered giving himself the nickname of Tomcat, but when Agent 86 grew even older and started living on his own, he met a silly little girl named Cat who referred to him as "her tomcat" (because "tomcat" simply means male cat). Around the same time, he discovered that those around him considered him a "tomcat" because of his many girlfriends up to that point; he was still a virgin, and by no means promiscuous, so it was a misnomer, but since everyone around him was calling him that, and since he already loved the plane that bore the same name, Agent 86 only thought it fitting to combine the nickname he'd gone by for so long with his newly assigned title, and, thusly, Agent Tomcat was born. His doting mother, however, still calls him SweetPea. The end.
Shawn is an avid Star Trek fan, and his first work on fanfiction.net was a collection of blogs from his Star-Trek-themed MSN space. The blogs were assembled into one story and posted. The author's note in front of the story states that Shawn is planning to revise the collected blogs and short posts into a stand-alone story.
Shawn's second post on fanfiction.net was "When a Stranger Falls", which was based on the 2006 film "When a Stranger Calls". As of Monday, February 23rd, 2009, this story consists only of a prelude depicting Jill, the main character of the film, escaping from a mental hospital.
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- On February 7, 2006, Agent Tomcat joined FanFiction.Net. [1]
- On February 18, 2006, Agent Tomcat published Star Trek: From Within :the prototype:. [2]
- On September 2, 2006, Agent Tomcat published When a Stranger Falls. [3]
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- Agent Tomcat: FanFiction.Net
- Tomcat&tag=author Agent Tomcat: FanWorksFinder
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