FlutterMac is demonstratively older than most of us realize. I mean, I’m from the Summer of Love 2011, and I didn’t even know about FlutterMac until a year later. I’ve always though it came from a short concentrated burst of fan shipping, for some reason of which I hadn’t noticed until Hearts & Hooves aired. Kind of like how most of MadMax’s comics are concentrated to between 2010 and 2012, or when Sethisto’s OC was a talking box up until 2012-ish. XD
@toonbat
Big Mac is probably the only character shipped with every male and female character on the show in this fandom. Spike shipping alternatives were halted by him being a kid while Discord was too much into Flutershy so fandom mostly ship him with her and sometimes with Celestia, Luna and Twilight.
@toonbat
Oh absolutely, back in the early lifespan of MLP there weren’t a lot of stallions to pair the cast up with and most of the characters were female. Spike was a niche option considering he’s a baby dragon who already has a thing for Rarity so everyone just slapped Big Mac with a mare if they wanted a straight ship!
Fluttershy ruin the comedy of this situation. OP should had use Fleetfoot and use IDW comic canon instead fanfic canon of FlutterMac that literally had one platonic interaction in the course of 6 seasons.
@TheNameIsAzureAce
Not much of a canon. Marblemac has been demoted from crush to allergic reaction. Or maybe they meant first crush this season? Either way it doesn’t pay to hop on shipping bandwagons around here.
Fluttershy doesnt give a shit. She never cared about him. Meme ships should not be grouped with actual ship teasing in canon. Or you may as well place Twilight, Pinkie, Brabeurn and 100 other characters in that picture.