Tee Hee

How did this escape everyone's notice from the MLP facebook page? Behold. Just friends.

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[Mr Swanky Hat]

lyra and bon bon confirmed couple!

[Masterweaver]

Yeah that's been around a while.

[Emtu]

They're the bestest of friends.

[No one is home]

Lesbian shipping intensifies.

[badninja]

They should just come out and say it. I figure all the fans think this anyway. Kids aren't stupid you know. Many they could adopt Scootaloo, if she really is an orphan.

[David Silver]

3835817 Faust insists she isn't, for how much her word is worth in canon these days.

[Damaged]

Yup, confirming a non-hetrosexual relationship is quite a step. I mean actually CONFIRMING it, as opposed to hinting at it.

I like to hope that love is a mental thing, not really requiring you to check what is between your legs to permit it.

Question is, was this simply a 'hay lets get somepony to make a cute thing for valentines day' and then a handoff to an artist to do the actual entire thing, or was there someone in a position of authority who said okay to this?

[David Silver]

3835928 Hasbro is very anal about approving media, I'm told? Still, mistakes happen, maybe?

[Damaged]

3835961 Possibly a media team taking stock images (from the MLP internal library) and using them as they see fit?

[David Silver]

3835968 Couldn't really say one way or the other, just that it is 100% official Hasbro art with two fillies in a valentine photo with hearts all over.

'You make my heart gallop'

Oh my...

[Damaged]

3835980 'You fill my heart with sweetness' 'You are the magic in my life' 'Friendship is only the beginning'

Maybe I should get a job writing greeting cards?

[Alzrius]

I suspect that this is the sort of low-level, "licensed media has deniability, and it's not really explicitly confirming it but the message is still pretty clear" message that you'd expect to fly under the radar.

[David Silver]

3836577 I don't think this qualifies as 'licensed media'? This wasn't a greeting card, but an advertisement for their product.

[Alzrius]

3836710 Okay, I thought this was for a card; if this was simply an image made in-house, then yeah, the implications lose several fig leaves of deniability. (Though not completely, since I wonder who has the Hasbro Facebook account information and how much clearance they have to go through to post stuff there. This is still more credible than a writer's tweet, but not at the same level as actually confirming it in the show itself.)

[David Silver]

3836737 Right, it's not a physical card, just a posting on their official facebook page.

[kevanick]

Just 'friends'... right. Not that there's anything wrong with that, (You win an internet cookie if you got that reference)

[Voldine]

3836855 Oh, look, haven't seen a Seinfeld reference in about three days.