• Welcome to Thousand Roads! You're welcome to view discussions or read our stories without registering, but you'll need an account to join in our events, interact with other members, or post one of your own fics. Why not become a member of our community? We'd love to have you!

    Join now!

  • Welcome to our yearly Review Blitz! Visit the Companion app to log reviews or view the leaderboard. Week Four's theme is Spread the Love: review a story that's received two or fewer reviews so far this Blitz. Check this list for eligibility information. Blitz ends 23:59:59 UTC January 18th--make sure to get your final reviews in soon!

    Don't know what Review Blitz is? Have a look at the rules, then write a couple comments for your favorite fics. It's not too late to join!

Recent content by Dragonfree

  1. Dragonfree

    Pokémon Will Somebody Stop These Kids?

    Fire Safety Some lovely scene-setting here. Very interesting chapter (if these interludes count as chapters). I enjoyed the fun characterful interactions of Kurt and his son and the exploration of the tension around Pokémon training here - with people like Jen ultimately coming up with ways to...
  2. Dragonfree

    Pokémon NEO-A-LIFE

    Chapter 3 I have now figured out that Emily was just staying in a hotel in Celadon temporarily and does in fact live at the lab - apologies for getting that mixed up last time. I enjoy Cassandra having a book specifically on her partner Pokémon. Awww. It's sweet to think about that - a...
  3. Dragonfree

    Pokémon Pokémon Rebirth

    Chapter 15 Nice lampshading :P The section where they tell the head executive what's happened on their journey so far sort of felt like an anime recap episode, going through and explaining the events of the story so far. Generally you don't really need this in a fic, though - recap episodes...
  4. Dragonfree

    Pokémon Empathy Imposed

    Negrek linked this and I was curious, so here I am a couple of years late - hope you don't mind! Very interesting and creepy concept here about Pokémon caught in balls being wireheaded into maximal bliss but, for purposes of actually controlling their actions, effectively being replaced by an...
  5. Dragonfree

    Pokémon Salvage

    Not me realizing I never actually read the latest Salvage chapter somehow [/spoiler]
  6. Dragonfree

    Pokémon NEO-A-LIFE

    Back for chapter two! Rotating first person POV is a bold choice! It's challenging to juggle multiple first-person POVs and make them distinct, I think, but it'll be interesting to see how you pull it off. Didn't even make it into space :sadbees: (Legitimately curious about the story behind...
  7. Dragonfree

    Pokémon Will Somebody Stop These Kids?

    Back again for "Dumb Luck"! Love this kid excitement about the kind of freedom where you can be up at five AM. Kids! Bwahaha. Love the dry humour you get in the narration sometimes. Amazing energy to just hand the kid a dog who bites and go "Good luck!" It's funny; this fic is from 2017...
  8. Dragonfree

    Pokémon Will Somebody Stop These Kids?

    Back for chapter two, finally! Once again, what kids. (They must be stopped.) I like this very understated and literal description - efficiently conveys that he's been crying without actually having the narration get into interpreting it for us, which I think reinforces the POV of kids who...
  9. Dragonfree

    Pokémon Pokémon Rebirth

    Hello and welcome to the forums! I read all fourteen chapters, since I saw in the Discord you were requesting people read all of them before reviewing (though you may get fewer readers that way - reading that many chapters at once is a bit of a daunting prospect!). To start with, if you haven't...
  10. Dragonfree

    Pokémon NEO-A-LIFE

    I figured it would be nice to try to review at least one actual new face for this week, and this one is an intriguing premise that also comes highly recommended by several people around me, so here's a review on chapter one! Great example of scene-setting and characterization by just choosing...
  11. Dragonfree

    Blitz 2025: Self-Promo and Review Exchange Thread

    Might as well! This is just... the same as last year, hah. In general, I appreciate all feedback, but specific preferences per-story are noted below. I'm generally especially interested in thoughts on the characters in a story, whether their actions feel like they make sense from their point of...
  12. Dragonfree

    Review Blitz 2025 Kick-Off Thread

    I can contribute some fully rendered art prizes in addition to logistics work, though I'm likely to be a bit slower than in previous years as drawing has become a bit more awkward and I tend to spend less time on it per day on average. Let's say two prizes to be safe.
  13. Dragonfree

    Experience With Pokémon Glitches?

    That's a cool guide, and a lot more thorough about how it happens than most from back then, but the Mew glitch was not first discovered by this person in December 2003 - it had already been popularized nearly eight months earlier, in April 2003, on the GameFAQs message board by a user called...
  14. Dragonfree

    Pokémon Morphic Shorts

    So for this year's anniversary, I got another themed drabble bingo courtesy of @kintsugi... and then did not have the chance to finish writing anything before the end of the event. Much like the 2021 bingo drabbles, though, I had picked out which ones I wanted to write and had ideas for them...
  15. Dragonfree

    Pokémon Nothing Fickle About Loyalty

    Naturally! She was always going to show up. Retcon all that worry out of existence. Awww. Kieran having an unusually vulnerable moment on two different fronts; probably not a coincidence that he shows physical affection with Hydrapple specifically when he's thinking about how he used to lose to...
See more
Top Bottom