@Ksardes  
Don’t worry, it speaks for itself.

@Background Pony #7A99  

 
What are you talking about?

@Ksardes  
Oh now you must be trolling.

@Background Pony #7A99  
Cuz LyraBon and ScratchTavia are old ships with fresh fuel and SoarinDash stands on few shots of “standing near each other”.

@Ksardes  
You could say the same thing about SoarinDash since its season 1 yet you say its forced.

@Ksardes  

 
So you finally came out of the closet after all that denial. Good for you. I’m happy for you.

@Background Pony #7A99  
This ship is too old to be forced

@Ksardes  
Which was forced .

@Ksardes  
that’s only now been established and a roommates are a thing

@Background Pony #7A99  
They are live together  

@Nealend86  
If I’m reading a romance, adventure, dark or other stories that includes RD, I’ll read it only if Rainbow Dash is gay (or have 0 interest in romantic staff). And if not, I close it and open something else, bless fandom, there are thousands of fics that 100% fits me.

@Ksardes  
And I don’t like it when people try to shoehorn Rainbow Dash into the butch lesbian trope because of superficial reasons.
 
I try to be very flexible in my shipping. As such, I don’t actually have any OTPs, but I do have a few contingents. One being that if I’m reading a romance story that includes her, I’ll read it only if Rainbow Dash isn’t gay. Don’t really care what she is, but it shows the author is able to be more creative with her then 80% of the fandom. (My other contingent is that I don’t like it when the author ships practically the entirety of the mane 6 with each other. I don’t care how even the shipping is, it’s not even remotely realistic! But that’s getting more off subject.)
 
SoarinDash has a basis in a few episodes, namely the end of the wedding and her helping him out in the tryouts. Not saying it’s perfect by any means, and the author is going to need to sell it, but the fuel is there.

@Ksardes  
>I hate when they force Soarin’ and Dash together  
>Octavia and DJ aren’t forced together even though they never met  

@KillerKid86  
I like Soarin too, but mostly in fanfics))  
Like in “Fire and Rain” he has the best character any male could ask to earn in MLP  

@Scrounge  
I really feel for Soarin.
 
I feel for the whole of the male cast, sans Spike and Discord…

@Evowizard25  
I don’t think they consider him childish per se. I think they’d probably pause for a second before betraying a foal like that.
 
I think they just consider him a moron.
 
@Background Pony #7A99  
More tot the point, Rainbow Dash is faster and a wing injury, even if it’s healed enough to fly, might very well make him damaged goods in the eyes of his more cutthroat teammates.
 
No respect for the poor guy. From anypony.

@Background Pony #7A99  
Thank god. Along with the “Gayburn”, “Eeyup Mac”, “Yeah! Bluk”, and “Waifu thief Flash” That was my least favorite fandom joke.
 
Mainly because it just reduces them to minor traits, catch phrases, or bullshit.

@KillerKid86  
Well his love for pie died down at the very least.

@Background Pony #7A99  
Soarin’s got a lot of potentate too him. I hope either the show or the fandom just uses it and don’t reduce him to shipping fodder. Like every other male character more or less.

@Evowizard25  
Don’t think he sucked as an athlete though. They did choose the top 3 Wonderbolts (this is based off of Sweet and Elite when he won 3rd place and the top 3 were put into Rainbow Falls/Equestria Games.) People do give him crap for doing poorly, but he’s still pretty good, just that Fleet and Spitfire are faster.

@Scrounge  
That was pretty obvious. Soarin is an airhead and well….Spitfire and Fleetfoot seemed like ‘really’ motivated ponies. Soarin was in it for fun, they were in it to win it. So, they probably thought he was childish.

@Evowizard25  
And there’s at least one where from what I read before just being done, he’s a complete bastard, but I’ll skip the details.
 
As for his canon portrayal… Is it just me, or does “Rainbow Falls” seem to suggest that Spitfire and Fleetfoot have like zero respect for the poor guy?

@thps48  
Headcanon/fan fic stuff.

@thps48  
Yes.

@KillerKid86  
Eh, are you talking about a fic you made with Flash and Soarin’ in it? Since none of those things have ever come up in FiM nor EG. <_<;