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The World They Chose by GeekandProud
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
19 Oct 2026
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Aemond and Visenya have fled King's Landing, and after landing in Pentos, they take time to heal before making a choice that will change Essos for generations to come.
Two heads, not one, crowned with Ash and Blood in the East.
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- Part 2 of The Ashenblood Chronicles
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28 Jul 2026
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Steve Harrington learned how to survive. He never learned how to be loved.
After everything Hawkins put him through, Steve settles into a quieter life teaching middle school, coaching baseball, and pretends the past stayed buried when the gates finally closed for good. The town knows about the earthquakes and blackouts but they don't know what it cost him.
Claire Bennett always noticed the things other people missed. The kid who never talked, the one who flinched at sudden noises, and the ones who learned how to disappear in plain sight. Which is why she noticed Steve. She remembers the boy Steve used to be. Or at least, the boy everyone thought he was. Popular. Untouchable. Safe. What she finds instead is a man who startles too easily, avoids silence, and carries a loneliness that feels familiar.
They went to school together their whole lives but they may as well have been in completely different worlds. Now they share hallways, late afternoons, and a growing awareness that some parts of him never made it out of the darkness that still haunts him.
This is a story about how sometimes healing begins with someone simply choosing to stay.
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26 Mar 2026
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Two weeks before she is meant to leave Hawkins, Brie Henderson loses her mother in a car accident and becomes the only parent her little brother has left.
That same night, she makes two decisions.
She will raise Dustin.
And she will not let Steve Harrington sacrifice his future for her.
Four months after a careful, practical breakup, she tells herself she can carry it all alone; the house, the paperwork, the grief. Even the nausea. Even the exhaustion. Even the truth growing quietly beneath her ribs.
Steve notices more than she thinks he does. He always has.
The truth does not arrive through confession.
It arrives in crisis.Bookmarked by deadonstage
27 Feb 2026
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“She’s not cool. She’s condescending.”
“Mmhmm.”
“She looks at me like I’m an idiot.”
“Wow. New experience for you.”
“And she talks like she’s already five steps ahead of everyone else.”
Robin hummed thoughtfully. “You know, that’s exactly how I felt about you when we first met.”Julia, the new art teacher at Hawkins Middle, is sharp, unreadable, and clearly hiding something. When a student starts acting strangely, Steve finds himself forced into a reluctant investigation with the one person he can’t stand—and can’t quite look away from.
OR: a post-canon, post-epilogue fic where Steve Harrington stays in Hawkins as a middle school coach and reluctantly teams up with the new art teacher to untangle a mystery.
Slow burn. Enemies to allies. And a love story about confronting the parts of yourself you’d rather keep buried.Bookmarked by deadonstage
28 Feb 2026
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Hawkins is a town built on routine—quiet streets, familiar faces, and the comforting lie that nothing truly bad ever happens there.
Lena Harris has survived long enough to know better.
When a local boy vanishes and the town begins to unravel, Lena is pulled into the edges of something strange and unsettling, where reality bends, secrets surface, and the past refuses to stay buried. As Hawkins cracks open, she finds herself standing closer to the dark than she ever meant to be.
Some doors don’t stay closed.
Some truths won’t stay quiet.
And once the world turns upside down, there’s no going back.Series
- Part 1 of Upside Down Sisters
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08 Jan 2026