They’re clearly not “just friends”, people.
 
They’re BEST FRIENDS!

Just friends  

@TheMultiBrony21  
you should have specified  
otherwise something like that can get you an insta-ban

@TheMultiBrony21  
….. wut

[@Keith Mowz](/916222#comment_4114039)  
I’m not going to be rude this time  
but before you shoot me down for disagreeing  
have you ever considered that that scene, and similar scenes were written not to make it “canon” but to pander to the fans?  
tbh I’m not against lesbians in cartoons, I just feel that shipping isn’t for this show in general, mainly because of how it clashes with the tone of the show itself  
either way you slice it  
The truth is they probably are just friends  
but the writers nod to lyrabon with a little fanservice

@Keith Mowz  

 
We can pack it up. We’re done here. Next case.

They are just friends, nothing more than that.

[Friendship intensifies]

I think they are JUST friends. :/ I also think that Lyra seems like a bitch. And Bon Bon is like Pinkie Pie…

@Background Pony #45C0  
purple and gay  

@RektPony  
That’s prejudice. Just because he’s purple doesn’t mean he’s gay. There’s just a 0.95 correlation with being purple and gay. Doesn’t prove anything Hitler 2.

@RektPony  
To be fair, the thoroughly awesome Mike Vogel is approximately as fabulous as the illustrious Mister Magnet himself, so that may be just an exceptionally highly placed level of wishful thinking.
 
 
_{that is one gay-as-hell sea serpent tho}

@danail24  
Mike Vogel refered to Steven Magnet as “gay dragon” so we have at least one canon homosexual

@RektPony  
Bro/Sis! Funny thing: female gay couples seem more socially okay than male gay couples. At least that’s how it seems to me personally since I have yet to see a cartoon series displaying two gay male characters in a relationship or even two gay men flirting.
 
Also as an example Steven Universe as a cartoon is bursting with almost explicit lesbian suggestiveness.

@RektPony  
Should be.
 
Key words.

@Andrew Sherring  
gay relationship and racism should no longer be an issue, just because there are racist people doesn’t mean Hasbro should hide black kids in their commercials and just because there are homophobes doesn’t mean they should keep lesbians in the closet

@RektPony  
It’s because Hasbro is an American toy company and if Hasbro were to canonize a gay relationship then they would no longer be neutral in the “culture war” that currently, and stupidly if I may add, holds a strangle grip on American politics.

It’s official! Lesbianisim is official in a show about ponies! O_o

@TexasUberAlles  
PREEMPTIVE ABORT THREAD! Everypony bail!

@Keith Mowz  
Oh lawrd, don’t say it too loud– CMC_Scootaloo might show up.

@StratusTrot  
And are also just fillies.

@Psycho Shy  
True, but not with the kind of expression Lyra has.