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Any idea how they met?
Also, if they were trying to appeal to LGBT folks, they already made a point of denying the Lyra/Bonbon are a ship headcanon (unless you're looking really hard for subtext), and I know of at least one member of the T demographic who'd previously been a fan who was deeply disappointed in the episode where most of the plot is Big Mac in drag being played for laughs... So I don't know if it's particularly likely for the showrunners to make that call at this point.
What about Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash? I've seen more fan art about them.
The Big Mac thing... it's - it's a Watsonian vs Doylist problem. Like. Every story, there's a way you can look at it as "why would the characters do this," but there's also a way to look at "why would the writers do this." And from the character's view, Big Mac was trying really hard to do something sweet for his sister. But from the writers' point of view, watching Big Mac put on this very over-the-top personality and the amusement of the ponies around him - to someone who doesn't conform to their assigned-at-birth gender watching, "a dude dresses up as a woman and totally can't pull it off, he's hilarious, that's the joke," can seem very awkward.
I don't have strong opinions about FlutterDash but there's obviously plenty of history between them, and they could be very cute together if the writers ever cared to do that. ^_^
Outside of the show, though, I could definitely see it as a possibility - depending on how Dragons age relative to Ponies, and I'm assuming at this point that the dragons in various stages of growth who were still articulate in the Dragon migration eps means the crazed greed-growth thing is something like a freak magic outlier rather than a consistent representation of How Growing Dragons Work - he MIGHT be able to reach maturity during her lifespan, or in fanfic maybe we could hypothesize the Elements prolonging their bearers' lives to keep them around while they're needed, or a Rarity!Alicorn AU or something - there are ways they could both be grown enough for it not to be weird for her to fall for him in return. I don't think interspecies romance is totally off the table in a world where so many different creatures are all still People, although short of magical intervention a species gap that large would probably complicate them ever having kids - and there's a certain amount of poetic logic to the idea of a magical jewel-finder and a Dragon.
Plus Rarity uses his feelings for her to get him to do what she wants. Someday she will feel guilty for that.
I still think that she does care for him, but I hope that she'll let him down easy.
Or maybe someday that Spike will get over this and probably find someone new, like another pony, or another dragon, or griffon, or a phoenix.
Maybe it's because I'm tired of seeing fan art about them together.
...Don't think I'd go phoenix for Spike - they're less People-like than the other options. They MIGHT be People, but I haven't seen strong evidence of it? Like as far as we can tell, Philomena, or Peewee's parents, have been more in the dog-to-dolphin/octopus range - Very Smart animals with a lot of personality and some strategic thinking, but not sure about their level of self-awareness and interpersonal communication. Opinions? Do you think phoenixes are People in the series in the same way that a Pony/Dragon/Griffin/Buffalo/Yak is a Person?
Actually, I find it a little weird on review that Fluttershy was so surprised Spike could talk - she's an animal specialist, is Dragons being People not actually that common knowledge? Is that just because Dragon colonies tend to be so isolated, or are most Dragons you encounter in Pony territory the greed-grown sort, or what's going on?