@Background Pony #9379  
I doubt Patch was responding to anything you posted either way.
 
And while nothing prevents you from upchucking an opinion, nothing prevents me from disagreeing in turn with its subjectivity.

@Patch  
In my defense, you drew Spike looking like he does in the series here, so I assumed that he was still a kid and therefore Rarity’s pregnancy was not his doing. Since pregnant mares seems to be your primary interest, an adult Spike holding the mother of his child and even placing his to her belly would be an appreciated image.
 
 
@gorkspewdium  
You made a post on an Internet comment board, and I replied with my viewpoint. If you are not interested in listening to people who have differing opinions, then the best way to avoid that is not to say anything in the first place.

@Patch  
Exactly, and like you said, he wouldn’t complain. He’d like her looking like this, it’s just that there’s no right way to answer that question…

@Itsthinking  
That is what I was going for, but in my head spike would be the one who got her pregnant.

@Patch  
To be fair, I thought you were going for the “ minimal detail funny face means nervous” style.
 
Spike would probably love everything about her, especially if she’s pregnant with their child.

@Background Pony #500C  
Right, because pones are so illiterate the Treebrary contained every book ever bound within Equestrian borders. No requisitions from the Canterlot archives for Princess Sparkle. Sure.

@Background Pony #9379  
Give a blunt reply to a half-baked line about indentured childcare, get an equally half-baked Cynical Analyst Essay(TM). Gotta loathe amateur hour toon-deconstruction. Especially when it handwaves eps that run squarely counter to any point re: Spike having no life/goals. Regardless of their subjective quality, said eps exist, which is more than plenty of Scrappy-tier anklebiters get.

@Background Pony #B2EB  
It probably is his, although I should have drawn him older or something.

Please tell me it’s Spike’s kid.
 
And she looks just magnificent.

@gorkspewdium  
Rents him out? No, but he always goes over to Rarity’s “to help.” Can we find a time when Spike has been along just for fun? Even when he was finally allowed to be in a Crystal Empire episode, one which was supposedly about him, he still had to carry all of the bags. We never really see Spike get to “have fun” or “be a kid.” He is defined by the work that he does for others.
 
While a lot of stuff happens to the C.M.C., most of their misfortune is a direct result of their narrative, such as searching out their cutie marks… from being proactive. Spike is “Fate’s Fool,” he has no control over his own destiny, and in the few cases when he does it always ends in disaster and bad episodes.
 
Tying this all back to this image, Spike wouldn’t be in a highly-unlikely episode where Rarity was this pregnant unless there was some kind of work for him to do or make himself useful. The show steadfastly refuses to allow him to be anything more than a tool… in all the senses of the word.

@gorkspewdium  
What books?  
The library is gone, I tell you.  
GONE!

@Background Pony #9379  
Spike’s buttmonkey quotient hardly seems any more pronounced than your average CMC. Plus, I kinda doubt Twiley rents him out as a live-in foalsitter; too many mis-sorted books for her OCD self to handle solo.

@gorkspewdium  
Because that’s the type of things the ponies have Spike do. You know, easily accomplished by themselves but too demeaning for their attention?

@Background Pony #9379  
Why would a telekinetic need cohorts to handle foal-sewage? If need be she could do it from across the room with a gas mask on.

Spike isn’t complaining about her new state? Kinda unlikely, considering that when he comes over to help her now part of his job will be to change diapers for the kid of some random stallion who knocked up his crush/friend.

…life lesson #1, Spike; never tell a mare she’s fat.
 
…unless you’re both into that sort of thing…

@soundtea  
If the martial arts we see now & again are any indication, Rare-bear works out. The odd jog or stretching session oughta keep her reasonably toned…though ‘reason’ may not help much here. Mightn’t pointing out “It’s just space for the little one(s)” work as damage control?

@Gundlach  
Well pregnancy does usually come with the rest of your body getting a mite heavier.

In your condition, I prefer the term ‘Swollen with Life’.

Pregnant ≠ fat, Miss Rarity.