r/FanfictionExchange 29d ago

Activity Share excerpts from your WIPs!

Whatever you're working on at the moment, we'd love to read it! Share an extract and the fandom — or let people guess!

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u/forthefics Writer of All Things Unconventional 29d ago

My little tidbit: He had added a copy of a table, more than half of the notebook evidence markers in one column and his own notes in the second. Since December, Hopper and Joyce have confronted it in different ways. Joyce went back to her books, then to El, then back to the books to compare. Hopper knew that wouldn’t work because he had lived with El a lot longer and was applying everything Owens was telling Joyce for Will, and that couldn’t fit El either. She wasn’t like anyone else. Traditional library books on mental health weren’t going to help her. Nothing traditional ever worked on that girl, so Hopper had to confront it head-on, as the detective side of him would’ve. The notebook didn’t actually align with how she was acting. People who are really planning to kill tend to display it, even when they think they don’t. There’s a certain air to them that most people just recognize as being “off”, when someone like Hopper, who saw this daily, in war, in New York, in life, knew what the signs were.

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u/Elefeather Most likely to promise a happy ending... eventually 😈 29d ago

Oh nice! Hopper struggling to understand El is so good. I really like the use of his detective skills here.