Just a quick thing about the new episode:

Spoilers, obvs

Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!

Fucking eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~!

Sorry Cheerilee, sorry Flutters, we found someone better!

Nothing can ruin this ship!

Comments

[Manes]

Fuck that shit! That didn't stop us from shipping Applejack and Big Mac!

We doing this!

[TheWraithWriter]

3495755 Hell yeah! Nothing can stop us now!

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Ahh!

[Scarheart]

I am totally grossed out by possible incest. No. I'm all for the sweet, but don't give me blind foals with five legs.

Also: Cherilee.

[Crystal Static]

3495769 You do realize that there is so much separation that there is practically no blood relation at all? Look at it this way, if you go enough generations back, everybody is related to everybody else in some way. I may be wrong, but if I recall, there are at least five generations of separation between the two families, if they are in fact related (which they aren't even sure is true).

~Crystalline Electrostatic~
12:23_25/10/2015

[Brony kaiju soldier]

3495755 Eeyup.

[Brony kaiju soldier]

Cheerimac has some serious competition.

[Scarheart]

3495828 Yeah...no. There is all sorts of wrong with what you just said. You are implying it's perfectly fine for bloodlines with an unknown amount of separation to mingle. I'd like to know exactly how far the gap is. Everyone is practically related in China and Mongolia, thanks to a guy named Genghis Khan, but we're talking seven hundred years of separation.

This is not the case. Three, maybe four generations at most.

There's no issue if they are not related, of course.

[schpeelah]

3495828 There was never a blood relation in the first place (aside from what's expected of the two being earth ponies).

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3495947 If you need to find out how you're related, you are more than sufficiently distantly related. Aside from extraordinary circumstances like orphans with unknown parents of course.

Strictly from a biological perspective, third cousins is fine unless the family is already very inbred and as close as first cousins can be fine if their ancestry is sufficiently diverse.