The Lost Bookshop
Experience: Empathy
Hardships each character went through (Opaline - imprisonment in a psychiatric hospital, Martha - abusive husband, Henry - abusive father), the "bad guys" not winning or "getting what they deserved," and characters I liked getting their happy ending
Contributed by: Sophia Sullivan
June 5, 2025
The Lost Bookshop
Experience: Righteousness
Narrative Technology: Moral Suasion
The unjust treatment of Opaline: “It didn’t seem to matter how talented, intelligent or independent a woman was, she was still seen as the property of a man, to do with as he pleased.”
Contributed by: Sophia Sullivan
June 5, 2025
The Cheat Sheet
Experience: Love
Narrative Technology: Almighty Heart
How Nathan goes out of his way for Bree to remember the little things – having flowers sent to her house in her favorite colors, but also having his perspective of him being so worried to mess things up
Contributed by: Sophia Sullivan
June 5, 2025
The Cheat Sheet
Experience: Gratification
Narrative Technology: Wish Fulfillment
bree and nathan getting together in the end: "I gather all of my strength for my next words. 'Your ability to shoulder everything, to give 200 percent of yourself all the time, to be perfect at everything you attempt…these are not the attributes that make you a valuable human being.' I pause. 'And they are not why I fell in love with you.'" ... "'I love you too,' he whispers over and over again. 'I love you, Bree. I love you, I always have.'"
Contributed by: Sophia Sullivan
June 5, 2025
The Cheat Sheet
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: I Voice
"Nathan is holding my hand. He's. Holding. My. Hand. Fingers intertwined, carry-my-backpack-on-the-way-to-science-level handholding. I feel a giggle bubbling in my stomach as my feet try to match his long strides into the soundstage where we are filming the commercial."
Contributed by: Sophia Sullivan
June 5, 2025
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Experience: Gratification
Narrative Technology: Wish Fulfillment
FitzSimmons finally getting their happy ending after many ups and downs in their relationship - getting married and having a daughter
Contributed by: Sophia Sullivan
June 5, 2025
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Self-Affirmation
Seeing myself mirrored in Jemma Simmons as well as Elizabeth Henstridge Jemma is 17 when the story started and she's type A, going into the field for the first time after only being in school (the lab) after being top of her class at the academy
Contributed by: Sophia Sullivan
June 5, 2025