@RektPony
 

@RektPony  
>Fandom should reject shippings that aren’t clearly happening
 
I completely agree, ships such as fluttercord and soarindash should be rejected.

@RektPony  

 
That’s no fun.

@MethidMan  
Anti-shippers should just shut up. The show has hardly any canon relationships. And making every character asexual and single is not only unrealistic but also retarded.
 
The show wasn’t created for them nor was it created for every shipping group. Is about characters who feel the wide human range of emotions, including love and attraction. While obviously not all of them are lesbians and most of their friendships are platonic, anti-shippers shoudn’t act like two ponies getting shipped in canon is some kind of a reason to Allah Ackbar themselves in the city center.
 
Fandom should reject shippings that aren’t clearly happening, but also accept those that are developed. Because it is also a part of their character development.

@RektPony
 
When you really think about it, looking at that Twitter post, the staffers’ way of leaving things ambiguous in the show is pretty much a win-win-win situation. It’s a win for either side of the fanbase’s viewpoints because each side can make their own conclusions, and it’s a win for the staffers because the debates help keep the fanbase alive and active.
 
In any case, I do very much enjoy this alternate cover. It’s a Hasbro-licensed MarbleMac drawing, which is enough to please the MarbleMac fans, and yet, since it’s only a convention cover, it also doesn’t say THAT much to begin with anyway so the anti-MarbleMac shippers shouldn’t be too worried either…though knowing how anti-shippers can get, that’s probably not gonna help much…

@LinkofEquestria  
Well, let’s see…  
Cheerimac became the “canon” BM ship after an episode that was specifically about them not getting together despite enormous outside pressure. So after an episode that has him smiling at a mare and blushing, I’m actually surprised at the fandom’s restraint.
 
@Background Pony #A4F5  
In TUA’s defense, being abnormally laconic to the point of communicating entirely in binary responses is itself a defining character trait. Being quiet and “boring” isn’t the same as not having a personality.  
As a counterpoint to TUA, the same thing applies to Marble Pie.

@Background Pony #C606
 
38 and 39 are a two part arc.
 
I agree that the incest argument is super silly.
 
That’s the right attitude!
 
 
@Psyga315  
Does this mean we can expect Tony Fleecs to get death threats soon? Surely our fandom would never stoop that low…
 
*reads previous comic and show writter twitter drama*
 
Oh dear.

Marrying your first cousin is legal in Canada.
 
I have no problem with… what are they… fourth?

If people would read the issue number, this is a variant for 39, not 38, which comes out in two weeks.
 
Also, as many have pointed out, the two families are so distantly related that they might as well not be related at all.
 
That said, I’d ship a three-way with them and Fluttershy.

@Background Pony #47C4  
Go ask the people who bitched and whined about that batman cover. Especially with how they react to counterarguements.

You know what oceans contain?
 
Huge Ships.

@TexasUberAlles  
That’s some nice headcanon. I guess even Celestia is very much fleshed out for your standards too? Because i haven’t noticed how are his “yups” and “nopes” in any way relate to his reach personality without using headcanons.
 
 
@Background Pony #47C4  
Is Hasbro approved. The main difference between fan art and this is that Big Mac would never made it into this scene with Twilight, Fluttershy or Caramel on the cover. Just because the show do not follow comics, doesn’t mean that they will allow them to do whatever they want with characters,

How can people create so much drama over a VARIANT cover?  
Have they not yet realized that variant covers are essentially fan art that almost never have anything to do with the contents of a comic?  
It’s been that way since the very first issue, and nearly 80 issues from various series later people still are surprised by this kind of thing?

“IT SHIPS MARBLEMAC! THIS COMIC IS NOT CANON!”
 
{licks the salt on the wounds}
 
@Background Pony #904B  
Which might be related thanks to Twilight using Starswirl’s spell.

@Background Pony #A4F5  
Big Mac was a blank slate  
Mac had his characterization firmly established in Episode 4.

Pinkie Pie ships it. I ship it. I prefer Shyceps over Fluttermac even though pairing-wise I think it works about as well as Marblemac (with shared singing talent instead of shared farmer family) because it, like Marblemac, was teased repeatedly in the actual episodes. (Though they had two episodes of canon interaction instead of just the one.)

Well, when can we expect TwiLuna, RariJack, SpitDash comics?  
I hope in 2016 at least.

@TexasUberAlles  
Big Mac was a blank slate until Brotherhooves social. Marble just need to actually say something for this ship to work.

drama in the comments?  

Anchors aweigh my boys. Anchors aweigh!
 

@TexasUberAlles  
Blank Slate…
 
Slate underwent metamorphosis from shale, just as marble came from limestone…
 
LuLz!

He’s too good for that empty character sheet of a Pony. They should-a called her Blank Slate.

@RektPony  
Maybe pandering was the wrong word to use. Still, it’s gonna take a hell of a lot more then simple blushing to justify ever commercializing the pairing on a massive scale. The comic this variant is for doesn’t look like it’s gonna flesh it out though.

@LinkofEquestria  
How can it be a pandering ship when it was first introduced in FiM as obviously romantic(implying anyone would believe that they’re blushing out of shyness when they never done it toward other characters). Is not like Dislestia or in this case, FlutterMac that was never a thing outside the fanon. THAT would be a huge fandom pandering. Only CheerileeMac would also had some canon reasons behind it but not anymore.
 

 
@Background Pony #904B  
And I’m tired of people dismissing it as incest. Not only it was never confirmed that they are even slightly related. Even if they were, there is absolutley no real blood relation whatsoever. I myself am probably somehow related to half of the people in this comment section. And if the show makers don’t see anything wrong with the ship then people shoudn’t try to be smarter than people who spend days over making of every frame in that episode.
 

@RektPony  
If they try commercializing it even further, then oh boy, that’d be a problem.
 
No offense to the people that like this ship, but unless this comic or a future episode expanded their possible relationship even further, it would seem like pandering on a massive level. This variant is already questionable enough as it is.