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"The Cost of Paint" by The Walrein Tess Smeargle looked intently at the calendar glued to her wall. All around it, intricate designs were carved into the glass-smooth stone, the work of sculptors with hundreds or thousands of years’ experience. Something she’d never be able to match even if...

"A Change of Perspective" by Sinderella Shoulders back. Straight gait. Hair gelled, deeeeeeeeeefintely uses Dior cologne because he’s trying to smell more pristine than he is. Can see a tattoo poking out from under his cuff, does he have a sleeve? That’s a dress code violation. Naughty...

"The Blur" by WindsweptCity Ricky groaned as his alarm rang. He groped out blindly at the Chingling shaped device, eventually managing to grab hold of it and switch the annoying thing off. Even after a few years, he struggled to stick to a set work schedule. Stretching and cracking as many...

Magical but Mundane Contest Entries "The Blur" by WindsweptCity I'd describe this as the story behind a story. Even as Kyogre is threatening to drown the world, life goes on for the main characters, who are trying to solve a puzzling mystery. It's going to take a lot of hard work, long...

Magical but Mundane One-Shot Contest Results It's time at last to share the results of Thousand Roads' fifth one-shot contest! We ended up with sixteen lovely stories of daily life, and despite the "mundane" in the contest title, I think you'll find them anything but boring! There are a lot of...

Happy birthday! Hope you have a great one.

Welp, that's scary. :) I quite enjoy the description of Yveltal in this post. Sounds like we're going to die no matter what, but depending on how we respond it may influence our abilities going forward? We'll see how this goes... > I still remember the world I was fighting for, and all the...

All right, I'm here with what will be the final progress update before the posting of results! At this point all judges but one have sent in their reviews and rankings, so I'm expecting that results will be posted by the end of next week at the latest. I've sent out a set of optional interview...

Welcome to the forums! As an eternal fan of weird one-shots, I'm always happy to see someone bringing more to the table! I love me a steelix, so I'll have to take a look at that story of yours when I can. Let me know if you're looking for other weird one-shots to peruse; I have a great time...

[[ We love a good open-ended prompt! >:) Very curious to see how our choices here might end up affecting things. And it's interesting to meet the real Yveltal here, after all the build-up. I wonder whether he's going to end up helping or hindering us in the end. Love your little Minccino...

Fantastic! Thanks to everyone who signed up for our first zine; I think it’s going to turn out amazing. I also have to apologize for the radio silence some of you have received regarding this project; rl concerns have been keeping me much scarcer than I would like recently, and I’m currently out...

I think Dark Matter would be very offended to hear you say that! He never said we weren't part of Yveltal, after all... only that we weren't the bird himself. I think that guy does a lot of not-technically-lying. Eyes emoji indeed! I am really curious to find out exactly what's going on with...

I am pretty neutral on number of named characters. I do think that stories with large ensemble casts are relatively more difficult to do well, because it's often hard for authors to make a very large number of characters interesting, distinct, and memorable. Since a lot of PMD fics follow the...

Our second to last power-up opportunity, hmm. Once again I think I'm on the side of taking HP/def rather than Energy/atk here, simply because it seems like we want SOME durability? The boost has been getting larger each time we have the opportunity to boost stats, so I'm thinking we could take...

All right, it's time for another judge check-in! At this point, most judges have between three and six of their reviews done, so we're about where we want to be. I'm expecting the first couple sets of complete reviews to arrive in the next week or so, and I'm expecting to send out the optional...

Happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Ooh, love the idea of the player character being an amalgamation of souls! Really fun way to tie in the players giving commands with what's going on in the story. Now, a collection of souls I might originally take to be a Voice of Life, but if it's specifically dead souls we have all gathered...

lol. Well. If we aren't Yveltal, we're someone who used to think pretty highly of our power, apparently! TRUTH, lol. I don't know that he's actually lying in terms of saying untrue things, but I strongly suspect that he's doing the whole lie-by-omission routine. It's a good question for sure...

Welcome to the forums! Glad to hear you're thinking of getting back into fic. What did you write in the past? Feel free to toss around ideas you might be interested in working on or ask for help if you get stuck along the way! Welcome again, and I hope you enjoy your time on Thousand Roads!

All right, it looks as though we'll be running corpses on the themes of Isekai, Grimdark, Pokémon Snap, and Grimdark Pokémon Snap this year! I'll be coordinating with the corpse-runners to get the logistics worked out, and first writers should expect to get the go-ahead in the next few days...