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Tikatu is a fan fiction writer who joined FanFiction.net in 2003.

IR	This user is a proud auxiliary agent for International Rescue.

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"pink is this year's black".

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Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius.

This user writes fan fiction.

This user reads fan fiction.

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General biography

A happily married mother of three and a stay-at-home mom, Tikatu writes Thunderbirds fanfiction, most often of the TV-verse category. She also moderated or co-moderated several fandom specific MSN groups, and is webmistress for an AU fandom role playing site that has original characters in addition to the canon ones. With the demise of MSN Groups from the web, she created her own site which merged two of the groups she moderated into one. The new site is called Thunderbirds Central.

She was possibly introduced to Thunderbirds fandom by seeing the show during its first run, back in the mid-1960s. However, she remembers watching the show during her college years, and in 2003, was reintroduced to Thunderbirds in the form of the DVD collection. Shortly thereafter, she wrote her first fanfiction.

She was a moderator at the long-defunct MSN group, Thunderbirds World (one of the first fandom messageboard sites), owner of its replacement, IR Central, and co-moderator at the movie-verse MSN site, Tracy Island IR. Her fan fictions are archived on FanFiction.net, FicWad, Fanfics.org, FanNation and Lunaescence, and she has some original fiction on FictionPress.com. She was a member and moderator at FanLib. In every place her stories are archived, they are under the penname Tikatu. As of this edit, she has over 1 million words archived on FanFiction.net alone.

Timeline

Below is a partial timeline for Tikatu's involvement in fandom:

2003

In early February, 2003, Tikatu joined the MSN group, Thunderbirds World.
On February 11, 2003, Tikatu began writing for The Adventures of the New International Rescue RPG, on the FanFicForum at Thunderbirds World.
On February 19, 2003, Tikatu joined FanFiction.net. [1]
In early March, 2003, Tikatu became a member of Thunderbirds Are Go, on Yahoo groups, under the name my8critters.
On March 18, 2003, Tikatu published A Personnel Dilemma. [2]
On April 1, 2003, Tikatu published Learning Curve. [3]
On April 6, 2003, Tikatu published Shattered Intelligence. [4]
On April 26, 2003, Tikatu published Brain Trust. [5]
On May 6, 2003, Tikatu published Bedtime Song, a songfic, to fanfiction.net.
On May 24, 2003, Tikatu published The Retainer. [6]
On September 17, 2003, Tikatu published Father's Day. [7]
On November 1, 2003, Tikatu published Follow The Cat. [8]
On November 25, 2003, Tikatu created the Thunderbirds RPG, International Rescue: The Next Phase, on MSN Groups.

2004

On April 20, 2004, Tikatu published Missing Scenes Anthology. [9]
On September 5, 2004, Tikatu published Mr Sunshine. [10]
On September 18, 2004, Tikatu published Lucky Dog. [11]
On September 14, 2004, Tikatu published Burning Muses. [12]
On December 6, 2004, Tikatu published The Rhythm Of The Stroke. [13]
On December 28, 2004, Tikatu published Resolutions. [14]
On June 30, 2004, Tikatu published Turnabout. [15]

2005

On January 11, 2005, Tikatu published Serendipity. [16]
On March 27, 2005, Tikatu published Masquerade. [17]
On April 1, 2005, Tikatu published April Fool's Day. [18]
On April 29, 2005, Tikatu removed Bedtime Song from FanFiction.net in compliance with their ban on songfics.
On May 21, 2005, Tikatu published The White Winds. [19]
On August 2, 2005, Tikatu published Prelude. [20]
On August 20, 2005, Tikatu published Overtures. [21]
On December 30, 2005, Tikatu published Grandpa's Hat. [22]

2006

On January 29, 2006, Tikatu created IR Central, a Thunderbirds fansite to replace the deleted Thunderbirds World at MSN Groups.
On February 11, 2006, Tikatu published We'll Always Have Paris. [23]
On April 25, 2006, Tikatu posted Bedtime Song at Lunaescence.[24]
On April 30, 2006, Tikatu published Hiatus. [25]
On September 2, 2006, Tikatu published Thunderbirds Haiku. [26]
On September 12, 2006, Tikatu became co-moderator of Tracy Island IR, an MSN Group.
On November 1, 2006, Tikatu published Coffee, Tea And More. [27]
On December 27, 2006, Tikatu published Resolutions Redux. [28]

2007

On February 28, 2007, Tikatu published Mosaic. [29]

2008

On February 5, 2008, Tikatu published My Brother, My Slave. [30]
On April 5, 2008, Tikatu was named as a forum moderator at FanLib.
On April 29, 2008, Tikatu deleted the MSN Group, International Rescue: The Next Phase.
On July 5, 2008, Tikatu published Coming Online at Fic simplicity and FanLib. [31]. On July 23, she published it at FanFiction.net [32]
On July 24, 2008, Tikatu created the Live Journal community, FanLib Forever, in response to the news of FanLib's closing.[33]
On October 27, 2008, Tikatu published A Long Time, a Disney Beauty and the Beast ficlet, on both FanFiction.net and FanNation. [34] [35]

2009

On January 21, 2009, Tikatu purchased her own domain, tikatu.com, and began work on Thunderbirds Central, a merging and replacement for the MSN Groups Tracy Island IR and IR Central. This was in response to the imminent closing of MSN Groups on February 21, 2009.
On August 9, 2009, Tikatu moved the website pages of International Rescue: The Next Phase to her own domain. She also set up a new gallery script there for the site's reference pictures.

Fandoms

Membership

Below is a partial list of communities, sites and mailing lists Tikatu belonged to at some point.

Moderated or Co-moderated MSN Groups

All of the below no longer exist due to Microsoft shutting down MSN Groups on February 23, 2009.

IR Central - a TV-verse centric group, replacing Thunderbirds World
Thunderbirds World - a TV-verse centric group, now defunct.
Tracy Island IR - Movie-verse centric group

Live Journal communities

Tikatu: 30 beverages
Tikatu: Fic simplicity
FanLib Forever - a community for FanLib alumni. [36]

Other Fandom Spheres

Classic Thunderbirds Showcase - Fanfiction.net C2 group, dedicated to TV verse fanfiction.[37]
Classic Thunderbirds Forum - TV-verse forum at Fanfiction.net.[38]
International Rescue: The Next Phase - AU Thunderbirds role-playing site.[39]
Thunderbirds Are Go - Thunderbirds messageboard at Yahoo Groups.[40]
Thunderbirds Central - a website for both the TV and movie verse fandoms.

Fanworks

Chapter Stories

April Fool's Day [41]
Burning Muses [42]
Father's Day [43]
Grandpa's Hat [44]
Missing Scenes Anthology [45]
Resolutions [46]
Resolutions Redux (WIP)[47]

Story Arcs

Bekkah Barnes

A Personnel Dilemma [48]
Learning Curve [49]
Shattered Intelligence [50]
Brain Trust [51]
The Retainer [52]

Friends of the Family

Serendipity [53]
Masquerade [54]
Overtures (WIP) [55]

AUs

Turnabout [56]

Movie-verse

The White Winds (WIP) [57]

One-shots

A Long Time (Disney Beauty and the Beast) [58]
Bedtime Song [59]
Coming Online [60]
Follow The Cat [61]
Hiatus [62]
Lucky Dog [63]
Mr Sunshine [64]
Prelude [65]
The Rhythm Of The Stroke [66]
We'll Always Have Paris [67]

Drabble Collections

Coffee, Tea And More [68]
Mosaic [69]

Poetry

My Brother, My Slave [70]
Thunderbirds Haiku [71]

Awards

On August 29, 2007, she was named a Featured Member at FanLib. Up to that point, she had been a Featured Reviewer 3 times.
On April 1, 2008, her story April Fool's Day was a featured fanfic at FanLib's homepage. She also had her work showcased on the weekly carousel.
On February 4, 2009, her story Grandpa's Hat was listed as a featured story on FanNation's front page.[72]
On July 27, 2009, her story, Rhythm of the Stroke was listed as a featured story on FanNation's front page. As a result, she was interviewed about the story. The interview was posted in FanNation's forums.[73]

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