....I cannot lie, I seriously do adore Rarijack. It's my terrible guilty pleasure, even guiltier than my cornball daytime soap opera I never, ever miss. What started as a simple fascination courtesy of an unassuming fanfiction I happened to read when I first joined the pony community, ended up snowballing to the point that I have now become a ridiculous sappy-shippy fangirl. I had never "shipped" anything in my 30 years before ponies either, so the irony that a largely male fanbase of a little girl's cartoon has resulted in my developing such a pathetic addiction has not been lost on me, believe me.
But in any case, yes, do have some adorable ponies, and even if we shall only imagine them enjoying a nice day together in an entirely platonic fashion (it's possible if you squint enough). Just lookit them, they're so darling~!
I love how different they are. It's the 'opposites attract' thing. Especially when they were coming back from the Crystal Empire and AJ said that flirting line to Rarity.
... I can't even find the words to express just how much I love this, I think this is the first time I've ever actually been left speechless in terms of art quality. Hopefully "This is amazing!" will suffice?
okay, so there's people pining for applejack x rarity, applejack x rainbow dash, and applejack x pinkie pie (pet name there was pretty creative, apple pie). it's nice, but conflicting and very elitist, only involving the mane 6 characters.
There are people out there who ship all of the mane characters together (and even some of them who ship them ALL together at the same time!), and I don't think there's anything wrong with that as people should be free to explore and interpret characters and their relationships as they like. As long as one doesn't go out of their way to harass or disrespect people with differing opinions, I don't see why it should ever be a problem.
that answers most of what i put in the last comment, but still doesn't answer the whole elitist issue. most of the shipping i see online only involves the mane six being shipped with each other. i mean, i also see lyra x bon bon, and derpy x doctor hooves, but that's all i see with them, and i don't see much shipping of other background ponies.
I'm... afraid I'm not really sure what you mean by that, or how one's choosing to ship some or all of the main characters with each other only could possibly qualify as "elitist". People will pair up characters in fanfiction and fanart as they choose (and again, they should be free to do so), which can include mane characters with other mane characters only, or background characters only with other background characters, or whatever, and yes I have seen plenty of examples of Mane Six ponies being shipped with random characters who have only appeared in the background in episodes one time, and have no established personalities whatsoever. The only reason that intra-Mane Six pairings are predominant in the fandom is because the characters are far and away the most developed and fleshed out, obviously, and so it makes sense that people would be more inclined to want to explore relationships between them than with other characters who have little to no development.