Besides - who doesn't like the odd spot of VinylTavia or FlutterMac? · 12:01am Apr 12th, 2012
Oh oh! Me!
What? Building to relationships is what shipping is about. Stuffing FlutterMac or VinylTavia or Mayor/GrannySmith in another tangentially related story is annoying.
Then if you're playing the "Pair the Spares" card on top of it, you as a writer risk me as a reader starting quite possibly the greatest flame war of all time over it.
If only FiMFiction had a reblog option.
I wish more people realised this... don't add a relationship unless it serves the plot or bolter character development, dammit. Even then, remember what the focus of the story is.