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It's been a little over a year since Thousand Roads opened, and in that time the community's grown quite a bit! In order to keep everything running smoothly, we're adding some new staff members to the lineup: please welcome Keleri, Pen, and Windskull as our newest community moderators! They'll...

Exquisite Corpse 2020 Exquisite corpse returns for a second year! An exquisite corpse is a writing game where where participants come together to write a story... with each only being able to see the last couple sentences of the previous writer's work! Anything can happen as the story passes...

As discussed on Discord, we'll be running another round of exquisite corpses this year! If you aren't familiar with the concept, an exquisite corpse is a writing game where players are assigned a random order and write a brief scene based only on the final sentence of the scene from the person...

Realized we don't have a thread for this, which is obviously a huge oversight. So... what's your favorite pokémon? If you have trouble narrowing things down or just want to spend some time sorting pokémon, the favorite pokémon picker can help. For a long time my favorite pokémon was a pretty...

Myths and Legends One-Shot Contest That's right, it's finally time! The judges have been working overtime to read and write feedback for of all the entries. We had fifteen this year, so it was a big job! Now the results are in and we can crown the winners of Thousand Roads' first one-shot...

First Anniversary Fanfic Mafia Player List qva (Lauchzelot) Starlight Aurate (Yami Bakura) Persephone (Genesis) Namohysip (Diyem) Dragonfree (Dave Ambrose) DawningWinds (Professor Finnar) Tanuki (Desper) NonAnalogue (Fiametta Fortunata) Sike Saner (Ntairow Fade) Windskull (Nip) Equitia (Jen)...

Thousand Roads First Anniversary Celebration The Thousand Roads community opened its doors to the public back on April 24th, 2019! It's been a whole year since then--or maybe it feels like a decade--and we're off to a fantastic start. It's been an amazing experience to watch the community grow...

First Anniversary Scrap Swap Scrap Swap is a collaborative event that challenges you to create a small piece of writing or visual art riffing on a prompt provided by one of your fellow members. It's a simple process: 1. Every two days between April 26 and May 10, I'll post a prompt. 2...

First Anniversary Fanfic Mafia Strange disappearances plague the worlds of Pokémon fanfic. Beloved characters, places, and even stories within the stories, the legends of each individual world, have vanished so completely that few remember they ever were. Some of those who were whisked away...

As I'm sure no one but me is aware, the Thousand Roads community's first anniversary is coming up in two weeks! I have a number of things planned, but I'm wondering what other people might be interested in trying out. Here's some of what I have on the schedule: - We'll be playing another game...

Some of the cooler research I've heard about recently has looked at aphantasia and how different people are in their ability to visualize things, so I thought it would be fun to see how people on the forum experience reading and writing. When you're reading, do you see a full picture of what's...

One-Shot Contest: Myths and Legends The Pokémon world is full of incredible creatures, from common Pokémon capable of calling up thunderstorms to immensely powerful beings able to stop time, level continents, and perhaps even revive the dead. The humans living alongside Pokémon have been...

Our next big event is going to be a one-shot contest! The idea is simple: people write one-shots based on a set theme, and group of judges reviews them and selects their favorites. Only thing: we need a theme, and also a couple of those judge people! The staff have discussed possible themes...

There are a lot of franchises out there that let you "sort" your characters according to their personality traits, from their Homestuck classpect to the color of their lightsaber. Non-fandom sorting systems like the MBTI are also welcome here! Talk about how you would sort characters from your...

It's that time of year again! Maybe next time I should resolve to get this thread up on the first. Do you have any resolutions for 2020? And how was 2019--did you have any big achievements in the past year? I know some people here made big progress with their stories, at least, so feel free to...

Hello and welcome to Salvage, my big fic project of many years! In the aftermath of Mewtwo's escape from the Cinnabar lab, Mew was lost, and another creature was born. Neither human nor pokémon but wielding Mew's powers, it's vowed to find its mother and free her from imprisonment, no matter...

Hello and welcome to the Thousand Roads' second word crawl! We played a smaller crawl during Camp NaNo in July, but for the November event we're going on a full pokémon journey! Also unlike the previous crawl, this one has writing challenges only. If you aren't familiar, a word crawl is a game...

NaNoWriMo's right around the corner! Who's planning to participate, and what are you going to work on? This year I'm going to be working on the same thing I have for the past several years, my main chapterfic, Salvage. I had hoped to finish it for NaNo last year, but then instead of doing that...

Treat or Treat 2019 No tricks here! As October winds down, with the prospect of shorter days, NaNoWriMo, and the holidays looming, let's take some time to relax and have a bit of Halloween fun! Treat or Treat is a casual story feedback event that's quick and low-stress, with the primary goal of...

I recently spilled way too many words about why pokéball shelves are bad, which got me thinking... Have you ever accidentally screwed up your own worldbuilding? Are there elements of the pokémon canon you find it really hard to write around? Or are there problems you've seen in other stories...