On the subject of shipping of characters from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic or: How the hell can those two go together?:

Well, first a confesson. I'm not personally a fan of LGBT shippings. Now that we got that out of the way, let us disscuss the various shippings in the MLP fandom and what I personally think of them:
First a quick definition of the term shipping, from the website Know Your Meme:

"Shipping is a fandom practice that involves imagining relationships between two fictional characters from a show, movie, or book series. This ranges from canon relationships (ones that appear in the work) to alternate universe scenarios that would be highly unlikely to ever occur in the normal storyline. Shipping can be seen in fanfiction and fan art of the imagined couplings."

In english, that means that two characters in a show (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic for example) are seen by fans of said show to romantically involved.


In the general fandom of MLP, there seems to be an increibly high amount of Girl/Girl shippings. Why is that you may ask? Here are three reasons:


1. Most of the characters of the show are girls. If out of 10 people, 9 of them are girls, most fan shippings will be girl on girl, it's just a matter of statistics. (This view I think is the most accurate)


2. Most of the fans of this show are young adult males, and as we all know most males of the age group of 16-24  REALLY like lesbians, no matter what. (Yeah, I don't know why ether)


3. It's just cause most bronies are perverts who live in they're mothers basement. (This view I DON'T think is the reason)

I shall now list several fandom parings and give my own personal opinion on them:

AppleDash (Rainbow Dash and Applejack):

Reason for being prevalent: The two characters are often shown to be friends in the show itself, but somewhat contentious friends. This, along with the running joke of Rainbow Dash being lesbian (due to her tomboyish nature and the fact that her mane is rainbow colored). But when asked said question, Lauren Faust (creator and executive producer for the show) responded with the following:

"nowhere in the show is her sexual orientation ever referenced....assuming [tomboys] are lesbians is extremely unfair to both straight and lesbian tomboys"

I happen to agree with Mrs. Faust.

Reason for me not being a fan: I personally don't think Applejack and Rainbow Dash are lesbian for the reasons listed above, and by this point, it seems to be a cliche.

Lyra/Bon-Bon:

Reason for being prevalent: These two characters are often seen in the background of the show standing next to each other. That's it. Really.

Reason for me not being a fan: For the reasons listed above. And logically, if you didn't know me at all and I just saw me sitting next to my brother, would you think I was gay? No. You're first thought would probobly be: "Why in hell does that nerd in the glasses have hair like Kramer from Sienfield?"

Someone actually made a comic pointed out the bad logic envolved with the whole Lyra and Bon-Bon shipping thing:

See what I mean?

FlutterMac (Fluttershy and Big Macintosh):

Yes, it is just as cute as it looks.

Reason for prevalence: They both seem to be the most soft-spoken characters in the show, Fluttershy mostly talking barily over a whisper and Big Mac rarely saying anything more than "Eeup" and "Nope". Even though in the show I don't believe they've even shared the screen together for more than two seconds.

For odvious reasons there are MANY more shippings out there I could talk about, so I'll soon be doing a video dedicated to said shippings.

Thanks, FabinHim