@Joseph Raszagal  
Eeyup.

Gotta say, that’s a pretty decent threat xD .

@Background Pony #CDE3  
Not liking*

@Dress Horse  
Alright, I just get tired of people playing that card over not like a headcanon of all things.

@Dress Horse  

 
That made my day. Thank you.

Enough. Enough. Cease the arguments. Let’s not turn this into Tumblr.

@Background Pony #AD33  

 
Okay I know I abandoned the thread and all that, but are you fucking serious? Not liking the idea that a same-sex couple can magically shit out a baby is apparently homophobic? So does liking FlutterDash/ScratchTavia/BraeMac mean you hate straight/bi people?
 
This might come as a shocker to you, but people can not like something in fiction and still tolerate it in reality. And #CDE3 is right, “magic” is used way to excessively as an excuse for whatever. I know this may be hard, but, it’s a general rule of thumb, but having magic gives you more rules to follow, not less. If you use magic to bypass rules or barricades that the world, logic, biology, etc. makes, you’re using it as a cop-out.
 
“I can’t think of a way this would make sense, so I’m going to brush it off as just being magic lawl!”

@Background Pony #AD33  
Or maybe, some people actually enjoy the idea of their genes being passed down. Shocking, I know.

@Background Pony #CDE3  

 
To me it sounds like if someone who is from the 1900’s saw what we have now and could do technology wise they’d say we’re lazy cause we use science to solve some of our problems that they could only dream of solving. Who is anyone to say what limitations something should or shouldn’t have?
 
 

 
That’s…. exactly what they’re saying though?
 
Oh i’m sorry, it’s: have kids through adoption or don’t have them at all! Doesn’t really sound that lenient to me, and sounds borderline homophobic. The complaints make no sense and you could bitch about any of the magic on there, or magic in general.

@Background Pony #CDE3  
Honestly, the fandom abuses magic as an Ex Machina than the show at this point, since the show only uses that for the premiers and finals, and the fandon when ever it’s convent, like MLS/MGS.

@Background Pony #AD33  
People disliking magic used to solve every solution/problem is a perfectly valid reason given how overpowered it can be in the show and such. So let’s hold off on the ‘if you don’t like ‘magical lesbian spawn’ you don’t want same-sex couples to have children accusation .

@Meanlucario  
Does that mean that straight couples having a kid, via the common way is a “cliche trope” because it happens more often than a MLS, and the straight couple should of adopted instead? Look, some of ya’ll just hate the idea of same sex couples having kids of their own, which is fine. But don’t hide behind bullshit reasoning like you actually have a objectively valid reason for disliking something.
 
This is a world where they have crazy good magic, I don’t really see it as too much of a stretch that they can do something like this,(it’d be a further stretch for a gay couple, but they could have a surrogate mother if you really had a hard time thinking of a sensible way they could have biological kids).

@Eeveeinheat  
If people didn’t abused it to death, I might have agreed with you. However, there are many times when it doesn’t make sense, like Gilda/Dash MLS (Magical Lesbian Spawn) or Garble/Fizzle MGS (Magical Gay Spawn), and is just a way for people to ship same-sex characters without resorting to GASP adoptions, like in real life. It always has been, and will be, a cheap cop out.

@Dusk Ealain  
Cop out? I’ve always seen it as changing an egg into a sperm (which would honestly take very little genetic work when compared to changing birds into oranges) and then fertilize that way. Less of a cop out and more of something they could actually do with magic. What exactly would they be cop-outing of?
 
Heck, give it a century (maximum) and I bet we’ll have the know how to be able to create male gamete cells from purely female cells. With a complete knowledge of the human genome, advanced ASI, powerful enough computers, and a method to do so, it’s only a matter of time before custom gentic reprograming could be done on an individual basis for anything you like. The only thing you could argue is that it’s a cliché troupe in mlp fan media. But hardly a cop-out.
 
That said, I personally don’t like it very much. But I don’t dislike it either. Different strokes and all that. As long as they make the methodology internally consident in their story. Because that’s truly all I care about.

@Bobthedalek  

 
Mate, I had a sigh of relief reading that. _{(No offence intended to those who like it)} I’ve always found the “Magical Lesbian/Gay Spawn” to be a cheap cop out.

No one’s going to get grandchildren at this rate. How stupid are these ponies?

Always love these silly comics.

@Eeveeinheat  
Through true love and alicorn magic

@MLPFan2012  
Overused in comparison to the “old fashioned way”? No, not by any stretch of the imagination.

They compromise and get a dachshund in a submarine costume.

@ArtColter  
I find it strange that we both came to the same conclusion (making the same joke) literally seconds from one another. Even if we were wrong, it was kind of a weird coincidence.

I thought the joke was Octavia warning her mother that Vinyl’s desired equipment would cause sterilization (like that old joke about “their music is so loud, it can sterilize frogs 100 feet away”).

Octavia knows when to put her hoof down XD

@Bobthedalek  
Apology excepted. Magical lesbian spawn are overused anyway.