@Beau Skunky  
I’ll level with you. I actively like shipping 90 percent of the time, personally. I find it adorable, sometimes surprising and it’s just fun to think about. I also of course appreciate a good ol’ fashioned friendship picture, but, and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like you feel there are too many shippers and not enough ‘platonics’(?). If so, I’d say this. Each person who makes a shipping comment does so because they want to express their thoughts on something that isn’t concrete. Those same people could see 100’s of pictures of adorable pony stuff and not post anything beyond, ‘cute!’, because there’s no point. There established friends doing friend stuff. There’s no headcanon, no maybes or mystery of possibility. It’s the potential to explore how we think characters could act in certain situations given the chance. So, when given the chance, they’re more likely to voice it. But they could enjoy the platonic stuff just as much, depends on the person, they just don’t vocalize it :)

@DAPLR  
Yeah, but I don’t know, it just makes it seem like the fanbase is a li’l to hung-up on ’shipping sometimes. (No offense to ‘shippers.) I’ve seen people make ‘shippy remarks on pics that weren’t meant to be ‘shippy at all, and I remember one artist on DA requested people stop giving her requests to put a picture of a platonic Twilight & Pinkie to be put in ‘shipper clubs. (Because it wasn’t meant to be ‘shippy.) It’s like some see ‘shipping where there isn’t, and such, or get to obsessed with it.
 
I mean I can understand it can be fun for some people, (I’ll even admit some ‘shippy pics are well drawn, and I faved a few) and you can ‘ship all you want, but I just don’t think every character has to smooch every other character.  
I’m overall kinda neutral with ’shipping, or a somewhat of a non-‘shipper overall. It’s getting hard to find other fans like that.

@Beau Skunky  
They are, but the show has enough of that. The fanon explores what the show hasn’t, can’t or shouldn’t. Shipping characters romantically is talked about a lot because it’s only there where it can be talked about.

@MezzoDragon  
I understand, ’shippers can have their fun, I just prefer the “Mane 6” as just friends with each other. Just my preference. I just wish fans would be open to platonic relationships, or platonic “friendshipping,” as well.

@Beau Skunky  
They are undoubtedly platonic friends in canon. However, the truth shan’t prevent shipping.

@boilerwash  
…Though, there’s some of us who don’t want to “EF” our friends, and/or everything that moves.
 
I honestly don’t see why Rarity & Applejack can’t be platonic friends.

I can never understand why everybody gets so pissy about Rarijack and think that it would HAVE to be some long lasting relationship that would go on forever.
 
Sometimes you just have a friend you’d like to FUCK and thats as far as it goes.

A pairing between two of the mane six seems odd to me, because they are supposed to be friends, not more. I could see it only in the very last season.

@Background Pony #7B88
 
Yeah. Kilala97’s epic-level-cute Sparity artwork is pretty much the only reason I’m not 100% throwing myself into the Good Ship Rarijack.
 
Because, gosh darn it, Spike would make a GREAT father!

I’m pretty sure this is just another case of having our shipping goggles on too tight but in all honesty, Rarijack is the only lesbian ship I don’t mind seeing sense it works better than any other. Though, Id feel really bad for Spike.

@Ping_chan  
Eh, to be honest, I’d rather not any fanon pairings become canon. I’m honestly in the camp that wants the “Mane 6” to just “remain platonic friends.”

Qugmire: ‘I like where this is going…’

All the “opposites attract” pairings are most odd pairing.
 
Appledash, Twinkie, Rarijack, none of them work.

If Rarijack ever becomes canon, I’ll be happy.  
But I understand that may never happen for obvious reasons, and if it did, I’d understand that many people would be unhappy about it.

@Applejack007  
Agreed.

Best pairing.

Yes, obviously, the athletic one and the country are the better pairing.

I find that line of Chrysalis’ funny for some reason.