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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...

In Orre, a rainbow glowed above a tower, and an age of shadow ended. In Johto, a tower fell in rainbow flames, and three new lives began. Wes has never believed in second chances, but perhaps in a place as strange as Johto, anything is possible. Warnings: None Author's Notes: This is a...

This is the first of this year's two villainous team grunt exquisite corpses, where the authors imagine typical days in the lives of the lowliest members of Pokémon's "evil teams." The following authors wrote for this corpse: As always, get ready for lots of twists and turns as well as...

The first entry in this year's batch of exquisite corpses had a very fitting theme for spooky season! This corpse centered on all things morbid, ghastly, and macabre, and we got some lovely range from camp to outright horror in the final product. The following authors contributed to this corpse...

Review Blitz 2023 Kick-Off November's waning, the holidays are approaching, and with them comes one of Thousand Roads' biggest community events: Review Blitz! We'll be cranking out reviews to fill authors' stockings for a solid month, and we'd love to have you be a part of it! Last year we...

The Festival of Masks The lights and sounds of the Festival of Masks beckon travelers in from afar, music filling the warm summer-night air beneath thick strings of paper lanterns. Fires burn in the toro all along the path snaking up to the grand pavilion, and closer in the smell of fried food...

The Festival of Masks Every year Kitakami celebrates its Festival of Masks, an ancient tradition where villagers don intricate masks and gather to share in good food, games, music, and storytelling. In recent years the festival has attracted visitors from afar, and there's no distinction...

November looms once again... will you be writing? If you're not familiar, National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is a one-month writing challenge taking place in November. Traditionally the goal is to write a 50,000 novel in a month, but you can customize the challenge according to your...

Aeons and Avatars One-Shot Contest Results Here we are with the results of our 2023 one-shot contest, Aeons and Avatars! We ended up having exactly the same number of entries as we did in 2022, making for a pretty hefty chunk of legendary fics! I hope you enjoy reading through all the entries...

The last exquisite corpse to be read for 2022 was the second fanregion supreme corpse, hosted by Bench! Since he wasn't able to host the reading himself, I'm posting this one on his behalf. This second exploration of new lands and new mon included the following authors: I had a lot of fun...

The first of the Gen IX DLC additions has been out for a couple weeks now, and I thought it would be nice to have a place to discuss it, as well as the upcoming part two. Feel free to share your thoughts on the DLC, show off any impressive catches or other findings, or speculate about what's...