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Welcome to Xenforo 2.2! Welcome to the newest version of Xenforo! This update's been a long time coming, but I hope you'll find the new features in this version to be worth the wait. You can read more about those below, but before we get there, I'd like to give a big shout-out to the staff team...

It's that time of year again! Do you have any resolutions for 2021? Did your 2020 resolutions work out at all? (Last year's thread is here, if you want to refer back!) In the end 2020 really laughed at all my plans for the year, which I can't really feel too bad about. I had quite ambitious...

As was discussed on the Discord, some people thought it might be fun to set up some kind of "book club" for fanfics, where a group of people get together and read/discuss the same story at the same time. Moving it over here to finalize some details and let more people in on the discussion! -...

It was a long time coming, but at last I can reveal the last of our exquisite corpses for 2020! It's the Anything Goes corpse, so anything can happen--even more so than in our other corpses. We had nine people writing for this corpse, including: The completed story appears below, and the...

The mod team's been throwing around some ideas for how we might be able to help writers get the kind of feedback that's going to be most useful to them and help reviewers know what sorts of comments writers would appreciate. We have writers here with all different backgrounds who want different...

Our exquisite corpse writers have been hard at work behind the scenes, and now at last it's time to unveil the first Franken-fic to emerge! This is one of our two Ash Betrayal corpses, with contributed sections from the following authors: The completed story appears below, and the author of...

Looking for something new to read and not interested in clicking thread titles until you find something you like? Thousand Roads' story index has you covered! It provides additional information about the stories hosted here, including summaries, genres, content warnings, and more, so you can...

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...