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If you weren't aware, FFN has been completely offline since July 12th. The official Twitter account recently released a statement about the outage, claiming that it's a result of a complaint about child abuse-related materials hosted on the site from their domain registrar. So when do you think...

Magical but Mundane: A Pokémon Fanzine Since our yearly contests already bring together a lot of fanworks on a common theme, I thought it would be fun to expand that idea into a full-on zine! This year's contest entries will provide the zine's backbone, but if you weren't into writing a...

One-Shot Contest: Magical but Mundane The Pokémon World is a place of adventure, full of legendary heroes, outlandish villains, and world-ending threats. However, it’s also full of people living peaceful lives: spending their days at work or school, keeping up with their hobbies, and taking for...

One-Shot Contest 2024 Theme Poll + Judge Call It's that time of year once again! We'll be hosting our fifth annual one-shot contest this June, and that means to kick things off we'll first need to decide what everyone's most excited to write about. Thanks to everyone who offered up potential...

Fourth Anniversary Speed Catnip Speed catnip returns! This fast and furious event lets you sample several fics in a short period of time, while also getting super-quick feedback on your own stories. This event is always a load of fun, so I'm excited to bring it back for our fifth anniversary...

Fifth Anniversary Banner Collab Over the first five years of Thousand Roads, we've been introduced to hundreds of wonderful stories and an even larger cast of characters to populate them. We're also fortunate to have many members who're talented in visual art as well as writing! One way we'd...

Thousand Roads' Fifth Anniversary Celebration It seems hard to believe, but as of April 24th, Thousand Roads has been around for half a decade! We've come a long way from that first April of a couple dozen members and our tiny Grand Opening Celebration. We're at over 400 members across Discord...

Fifth Anniversary Drabble Bingo Drabble bingo returns for another year! The premise is simple: request a bingo card, optionally specify a theme, and receive nine prompts in return. You can ask for pretty much any theme for your prompts: perhaps you'd like some hurt/comfort prompts, or prompts...

Fifth Anniversary Mini Review Blitz As usual, our fifth anniversary will host a small review event to match our small writing challenge! All those new drabbles are perfect targets for a bit of feedback, or you can catch up on your existing reading list. This year's theme is new shoots! Write...

Fifth Anniversary Fic Readings We've had a handful of fic-reading voice chats in the past, including our regular Exquisite Corpse readings, but I thought this year it might be fun to offer people the opportunity to read some of their own stories, enjoy reading others' fics, or simply listen in...

Fifth Anniversary Event Planning Believe it or not, Thousand Roads will have been around for five whole years as of April 24th! Since that's a Wednesday, we'll be hosting our celebration April 27th - May 11th this year, but look out for some sign-up threads popping up over the next week for...

Exquisite Corpse Index Exquisite corpse is a party game originating in the early 1900's and originally popular among surrealists. These days we play a version updated for the internet, and usually with a pokémon twist: everyone who participates writes one scene of an ongoing story, while only...

Welcome to our second heist exquisite corpse for 2023, and the last to be posted for the 2023 season! Our writers have put together a thrilling tale of high-stakes thievery and thrilling action (and cats!), with just as many twists and turns as you'd expect from an exquisite corpse. Our crack...

Welcome to the second of 2023's villainous team grunt corpses! For this story, our writers followed the typical day in the life of a grunt in one of the Pokémon world's evil teams. As you might imagine, it's a perfectly normal and stress-free lifestyle! We had eight authors collaborating on this...

Another Review Blitz is now well over, and it's time to think back on how it went and how it could be even better in future years! There weren't any dramatic changes to the event's structure this year, but there are a couple things I'd like to think about going forward. First, the topic of this...

Summary: A zoroark survives an attempt on her life. Only one ice dragon stands in the way of her revenge. Content Warnings: Violence, cursing What Was Left Behind It was the ice that called. For some time all she knew was its cold and the burning, a low, deep pain not of fire but of something...

Review Blitz 2023 >> COUNTDOWN to the end of Blitz! << Welcome to Thousand Roads' fifth annual review blitz, our biggest feedback event and your opportunity to catch up with the fics you've spent the past year meaning to read. If you've participated in a review blitz before, you should find...

Review Blitz 2023: Prize Claim Thread Welcome to the prize claim thread, where you can cash in your hard-earned Blitz points for any one of the wonderful prizes provided by our team of volunteers. Take a look at the list of offerings below, and when you've decided what you like, simply post...

Blitz Self-Promo and Review Exchange Thread Welcome to the 2023 Review Blitz self-promo thread! You can use this thread to... - Advertise your stories! - Set up review exchanges with other people! - Indicate what stories you'd most like reviews on, which of your stories qualify for the...

Blitz Hype and Fic Rec Thread Welcome to the 2023 Review Blitz hype and fic rec thread! This thread is for general Blitz discussion and hype--talk about your plans for the event, show off the prizes you've received, challenge someone to a review-off: it's all good! This thread is also your...