i STILL don’t understand why some stans call joyce annoying with the magnets?? first off, i don’t know why yall didn’t believe her right off the bat like she hasn’t been right for two entire seasons beforehand. second, she’s incredibly intelligent. she went out of her way to +

learn more about what’s going on in hawkins when she realized this pattern of why her magnets aren’t sticking. how devoted she becomes to finding the answer is her ptsd. i know the d*ffer br*thers never address it so i have to do it myself (which is fine) but joyce has so much +

trauma (before, during and after canon) that shows in the things she does and explains why she does this and how she carries herself during these moments. joyce notices the little things that are off because if she didn’t before, will wouldn’t be alive. her son ! wouldn’t be +

alive !! so, between her ptsd and anxiety, she is aware of these changes. no matter how “annoying” or “insignificant” they may be. and she becomes so obsessed and attached to these changes until she finds the answer because the fear of losing anyone she loves a g a i n +

is suffocating and is enough to send her to the edge. joyce byers is the back bone of stranger things. without her “annoying obsession” with the magnets, your favorite characters would not be alive. she found the issue and the solution herself because she NEEDED to +

because during season one and season two where she wanted to know where her son was and what was wrong with him, she became devoted to these magnets because she couldn’t risk losing her son again. joyce isn’t crazy nor annoying. she is intelligent and always right! it isn’t +

her fault that the d*ffer br*thers are incapable of expanding on their characters instead of just plopping in new ones but you can stop being misognistic <3