Discussion: Friends with Benefits, a new featured story

So when I upgraded my phone, this immediately appeared in the app. I think the things that intrigued me the most are the gender and pronoun choices (though not excellently implemented) and that I cannot find the author profile at all, but obviously she exists. As far as I’m aware of, only @LiyahxWrites told me she also played it, but I wonder if other people read it yet.

So thoughts?

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If you search up the original story, you can find her author profile. That’s how I was able to read the story.

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Oh right, :sweat_smile:. Thank you.

Still, the app is acting weird with this

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No problem. Her character also shows up for me. I think maybe episode is doing that weird thing again. Where some actually get the beta story in the “What’s Hot” section and people like me can search it up and find it lol.

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Anyways, like with The New Me, looks like the story is going to be shortened and only have one LI in the form of Shay. In the original, there are THREE, the apparent ‘best friend, bad boy, and friend’s boyfriend’ which thank goodness since it sounds a bit confusing just from that :sweat_smile:

Not to mention that the OG original is like over 70 chapters :dizzy_face:

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I see it is the case. When looking in her profile, I cannot find the Featured FWB.

That’s what I dislike about episode stories.
They change stuff in the script sometimes, and the shorten the books.
Like Parklow said: The OG is over 70 chaps, and then you have the Episode one.
Where you have to pay for everything.
I understand that this is the way they pay the writers but still.
All the OG stories are WAY better then the episode ones.
(In my opinion)

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Agreed, because to do anything in the featured stories you have to pay gems. And then you get like 2 minute episodes if you dont use gems.

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The original story is 73 episodes long. :cold_sweat: That’s got to be a record for original to featured story compression.

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I actually have this one in my “What’s Hot”. I’ve never read the original so I wouldn’t be able to compare. It’s also not something that I’d typically read, featured or unfeatured, so I probably won’t check it out.
The original version is already out in INK and LL I believe?

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I haven’t read the original story fully nor have I even started on that featured version. But I have read 46 chapters of the original INK version. I gotta say it’s not something I very much liked. I don’t know if the LL version is different from the INK and how much this featured version gonna differ. I kinda now wanna read it :thinking:

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There’s quite a few these by her. I noticed it today. There’s an FWB 2 and FWB in ink. :grimacing:

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Interesting choice to add “Silhouette” to the hair colors. Meanwhile, there’s no “Brunette” or “Brown Black.” :laughing:

It kind of looks like when someone wears green in front of a green screen.

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I spent 10 minutes yesterday trying to figure out if those eyebrows are higher than usual or is it just the animation? :sweat_smile:

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I think it’s the animation. I hate when they get all cutesy with animations during the CC. It can make it especially hard to tell how lips and eyebrows look. I once had to CC a dude who was making that creepy shy flirt face where the eyes get all buggy, and it was so hard to tell what he actually looked like.

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The first episode of this story cost me a pass. RUDE! Do featured story pilots cost tickets now?

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It cost you?! That’s ridiculous. I don’t think it cost me, but I can’t be too sure.

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Maybe it was a glitch. I had to watch ads too. :weary:

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Oh no, it might be a glitch. The app has been glitchy since the last two updates. :woozy_face:

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Same, especially with lips, since they get compressed :raised_hands:t3: