Big Macintosh is the best earth pony.
>>42796085He's thinking about the fillies...
>>42796125play games with, yes?
>>42796125He's got fillies on the brain!
eeyup.
>>42796085This is true very true indeed.
YEAAHHH
>>42798398I'd buy that for a dollar to get strong!
>>42798398He's a strong pony.
>>427990104 uuuu
>>42799794good friends :D
>>42799794Kek.
>>42798398GET SWOOOOOLE
>>42801187Should have been.
>>42801570that's one buff applejack, eeyup.
>>42801187In your dreams, cheerilee
appuls
>>42802555checked, big mac trips
>>42801187adorable
>>42796085>posting the inferior edit of the picture
>>42803684Well? What's the real one then.
>>42796085You want him drilling your skinny ass, faggot?
>>42804171Sir this is the straight thread
>>42804891Smug!
>>42804159that is a big pumpkin
>>428057444 uuuu
>>42806541Almost Christmas!
finally a best stallion thread
Eeyup.
>>42796085That's a weird way to spell Pinkie!
>>42807644It's Big Macintosh.
>>42807909I didn't know there were ways to say Pinkie without a P!
>>42808268eeyup
>>42808801Kino!
>>42808801Ship it or skip it?
>>42809508cool protagonist energy right here
>>42809137Ehh, DerpMac is a weird one. Took me a while just to find any art of them together.
>>42796085I agree
>>42810405Dark Macintosh >You're pounded, pounded, pounded, pounded
>>42797758This is really good, is it oc?
>>42811398It's drawn by some femoid on Xitter, like most fanart these days. https://twibooru.org/3626108?q=artist%3Adisgustingirls1
Morning bump
>>42810456how'd he do that!?
>>42811683Appul magic. It's one of a kind for the Apple family.
>>42808801amazing
>>42814654GIWTWM
>>42814657such an underrated pairing
>>42815393Simply adorable.
I'll probably have to call it with the art dumps soon. Hope you guys liked some of these. I think I like Big Mac more than a healthy amount. He's been on my mind too much lately. There's a certain calming effect he and the rest of Apple family have on me. I appreciate the friendship they gave him with Spike and Discord late in the series. And find the late episodes with him and Sugar Belle to be very sweet.He's very stately, very stable. He's quiet with a good heart I don't find it surprising that a lot of guys who watch the show can identify with someone like that.
>>42815983Couldn't agree more. Thanks for your contributions, anon.
>>42815983thanks nonny I love the big macintosh art you posted for us
>>42817213sad big mac :(
>>42817522What did Spoiled Rich do to piss him off?
My favorite pony is so cute!!!
>>42819455love a good apple cider and so does big macintosh!
>>42799343Lotta loyalty for a little pony
>>42830701I love this, happy family hug :D
>>42797879>>42798234Would
Obligatory Orchard Blossom dump>>42831619>
https://youtu.be/kMz0leSxUqg?si=QwXV4BjQoGZ4EeJM&t=56
>>42810406Hamdsome
>>42796795Hnnngggg! Why do these too go together so well?
Who is this stallion? I've never seen him on the farm but I assume he's related to the Apples somehow.
>>42849602The wiki says his name is Creme Brulee. I think he's just an early series placeholder.
>>42849824Yeah, I figured as much. Still funny to imagine there was this guy walking around Ponyville who looked like Mac down to the yoke and nopony noticed.
>>42854159
Good lord this was an undertaking. Hope you guys are happy with a folder full of Big Macs.
>>42854323Macfag, who do you think he should've ended up with? This goes for other Macfags as well. Are you satisfied with Sugar Belle? Did you want Cheerilee instead? Marble maybe? Even somepony else?
>>42854323Thanks Anon! We hit the image cap quite quick.>>42854391NTA but I think Cheerilee would be the best for Big Macintosh.
>>42854612Care to elaborate why?
>>42854633Simply because of the Hearts and Hooves day episode, I feel like they could of expanded on that interest of love they both over the next episodes but I suppose I expected too much of Hasbro.
>>42854645I don't think they liked each other. If anything Hearts and hooves day made it clear they saw each other as friends, to me at least. It's always cool hearing other anons interpretations.
>>42854391I'll just go over the ladies real quick.>CheerileeI think the appeal from this one comes from the idea that her and Mac started to become closer after Hearts and Hooves. Also the fact that she swoons over him in Filli Vanilli. I can see the appeal, and I would have liked Cheerilee to have gotten another spotlight episode. You could rewrite Hard to Say Anything to be about Mac want to advance his relationship with Cheerilee and it would still work.>Sugar BelleThis relationship gets a full three episodes dedicated to it. That alone makes it the most fleshed out Mac relationship. Mac and Sugar Belle are very sweet any time they are on screen together. They make each happy, and that's enough for me. I started the show later than most of the guys here, so I have more patience for all the late series supporting characters.>MarbleI always thought that one shot of her in Best Gift was oddly mean-spirited for this show. I don't think it would have been incest, especially when you do the math on the vague relative Pinkie mentioned in Pinkie Apple Pie. Marble and rest of Pinkie's family, other than Maud, only get one episode dedicated to them. Marble's fine, but is she also splitting her screentime with a bunch of other characters. In that time, she doesn't really wow me. And it is not that I don't like Pinkie's family. I love Pinkie's parents and the mental image of them raising someone like Pinkie.In conclusion, I'm very happy with Sugar Belle being Mac's wife. But if she never existed, I would have liked Mac and Cheerilee ending up together instead.
>>42854676The problem with Sugar Belle is that she's terribly bland both design and personality wise. Those 3 episodes feel wasted on her.
>>42854683I disagree. Honestly, out of all the bachelorettes mentioned, she is the one I get the strongest read from. She feels on par with most ponies that get one-off episodes. She's a nice unicorn pony that likes baking. She ran into Glimmer at one point and became the town baker, baking bland muffin and keeping her talents stifled. After Our Town was reclaimed, she started making baked goods that she actually enjoyed making. She's pretty standard, having her defining characteristics all be based around her cutie mark.
>>42854727Both Marble and Cheerilee have more going for them. Sugar Belle feels like a watered down Coco Pommel. Now that's a crackship, Cocomac.
>>42854727Furthermore, you didn't lay out anything about her personality. You described some details surrounding her. The other two also have those, and have relations with more important ponies than Starlight. Design wise I don't think anyone would argue she's better than the other two, she looks like a run of the mill late season background pony. They gave her the blandest pallette possible. Personality wise the other two destroy her too. Marble is the shyest pony. Cheerilee is a pony who struggles between optimism and irritability. Sugar Belle is... average, maybe? Not really anything unique with her. I see Marble fans and Cheerilee fans all the time, but never any Sugar Belle fans. That's because she's boring with nothing standing out about her. Hell, even her talent is generic. We already have Pinkie, Donut Joe, and the Cakes as bakers. Her coming in randomly and cucking Marble while being such a piece of cardboard was infuriating to most fans, I'm not surprised that people still ship Marblemac instead. This is without the speculation that she was a writer's OC.
>>42854747>>42854766I can't see how Marble has anything going for her other than being Pinkie's shy little sister. Compared to other shy characters like Flutters and Coco, she doesn't do much to stand out.>Cheerilee is a pony who struggles between optimism and irritability.She gets annoyed sometimes, but it reads more as a school teacher having her patience tested by her students. You never get a chance to see her act like that outside of a school setting or when not interacting with the kids. Cheerilee isn't that far off from Sugar in terms of concrete characterization. I'm talking from what's presented in the show, removed from any fandom influence. She's a school teacher who loves her job but still gets annoyed by her students sometimes. She appears in a good deal of CMC episodes, but most of the time is used for exposition. This isn't even meant to be a dig at Cheerilee. I like her and she fills her role well.>Pinkie, Donut Joe, and the Cakes as bakers. Comparing one of the Mane 6 to a late series supporting supporting character is like comparing Mike Tyson to an up-and-comer. But none of these characters are really stepping on each others toes. I'm not wondering why they don't use x baker instead of y baker in certain scenes. Donut Joe is mostly used as scene filler if they need another merchant who sells baked good. The Cakes gives Pinkie a place to work and provide another family dynamic for her, as well as the owners of a common location in Ponyville. Sugar's baking talents are used to show how Glimmer's teachings affected other ponies. Later, they reuse it build a bridge between her and Mac, and show how she's changed since Cutie Map. Even Mac building her a new stand highlights Mac's thoughtfulness and handyman qualities.In terms of design, that point is highly subjective. I see people says this about the equal 4, but I don't see it. Most ponies use the same base models which the colors and hair jumbled, so some designs are bound to look similar.
>>42854799>She doesn't do much to stand outHer being shy to the point of only saying mhm is plenty to stand out. She is an extreme stereotype, the opposite of Sugar Belle who is an almost blank canvas. She's the closest we have to a female Big Mac when you think about it.You still haven't given me any unique personality traits for Sugar Belle, which Marble and Cheerilee both have.>You never get a chance to see her act like that outside of a school setting or when not interacting with the kidsYou do though? The idea itself came from how pissy she's visually portrayed sometimes. It's such a common occurrence that there's a dedicated tag for it. https://derpibooru.org/images/1905741 (image limit reached)If that doesn't do it for you: Fanon is also important. It means that people cared enough to do something with her, which no one has for Sugar Belle. Remember, this community is based around the show AND the fandom.>Cheerilee isn't that far off from Sugar in terms of concrete characterizationThis is blatantly wrong. Cheerilee is also persistently sassy. See the intro for the cart before the ponies and hearts and hooves day as a whole.>In terms of design, that point is highly subjectiveSugar Belle has an objectively boring design when compared to the other two. Her colors are generic and Pear Butter overshadows her with the same mane type. You can like her if you want. You would certainly be an outlier, but opinions are like assholes in that everyone has them and they all stink. More power to you if you can see something in her that I can't.
>>42854799cheerilees name is literally cheerily lol thats telling of her characterization
>>42854821lol, fair. I could be just splitting hairs here.>>42854811>She's the closest we have to a female Big Mac when you think about it.This I agree with. They clearly wanted to make like-meets-like dynamic for those two in that episode. It's honesty just a matter of personal taste.>It's such a common occurrence that there's a dedicated tagWas Cheerilee the first character to have that tag? I've seen the "x is not amused" tag with other characters before. I honesty didn't know, if that is the case.>Fanon is also importantSure, within reason. Cheerilee has the advantage of being a character that existed in the show's peak of popularity. I don't really disagree with your read on Cheerilee. More or less just the wording. I've already stated that I do like her. I was remembering episodes that show her in the classroom, where she has speaking roles, and those scenes are consistent with her generally cheerier but still still sometimes getting annoyed, mainly by stuff that disrupt the class. It's totally possible if there is another's scene with her outside of the classroom I'm blanking on. And, all fairness the scene you posted was a small easy to miss one. Not saying that is doesn't count. I don't think suggesting Cheerilee's day to day attitude is similar herself during work outs is far fetched at all.At the end of the day I still like Sugar Belle and I'm happy with her and Big Mac ending up together. I still see art of her sometimes, and I still like her even if she isn't the most popular pony.
>>42854391i play up a lot of my sugar belle hatred (mainly for fun in other threads) but i really wish mac married someone who was in the show longer/had more screen time before season 7cheerilee would be a good pick, as they're both characters who appear frequently but not in every episode. it would've been really cool to see him end up with a mane 6 character just to see how applejack handles it since she's usually level-headed except when it comes to family (based on grannies gone wild or the episode where she helicopters over apple bloom) i think the problem with sugar belle is that she was and still is a literally who pick for a secondary character to marry
>>42855834>it would've been really cool to see him end up with a mane 6 character just to see how applejack handles itAnyone in particular? I know Fluttershy is a common ship for Mac because both are soft spoken. A part of me likes the idea of him with Rarity because of the contrast, them being in the same music group together, and it playing with how it was stated early in the series that Rarity wanted to date a prince (A farmer's son is a rustic equivalent of a prince if you stretch a bit). Plus AJ's reaction would be gold.
>>42856003rarity is my pick too, yeah. fluttershy doesn't seem like she would make for an interesting love story/episode and I feel Applejack wouldn't mind her being in love with Big Mac as much as if it were rarity. rarity is also a Ponyville mare at heart and slowly loses her desire to be with the "elite" groups of equestria as she finds out how superficial they can be. mac is unchanging and would provide a stable relationship which contrasts rarity's "organized chaos" lifestyle of running a business (mac technically has his own business too) and designing clothes. he's also a lot more genuine than the ponies rarity falls for (then gets broken by). i know it's dumb to bring up fanfics, but rarimac ones are always the most enjoyable shipping ones in my opinion
>>42856063Nah, I agree. That covers all of why I like their hypothetical relationship.>i know it's dumb to bring up fanfics, but rarimac ones are always the most enjoyable shipping ones in my opinionCan't recall reading any rarimac fics. In terms of fics Fluttershy and Cheerilee seem to be the most common.
>>42854313cute
>>42854391Sweetie Belle, post time skip if being real. Seriously.
>>42854328wholesome
Fastest thread I've seen so far that reached image limit fast, eat your heart out mane 6 generals.
eeyup
>>42857727It only takes one person to image dump, you know.
>>42858475I mean isn't that most imagedumps on this board on many different threads?
>>42858874true but whatever
>>42858442Nope!
>>42796085why is he named after the mcdonalds burger
>>42854278lovely.
>>42796795literally me
>>42860779Anon...
>>42860779Why are you such a faggot?
>>42863299i luv borger
>>42864733ಠ_ಠ
What the hell happened to the comments here? Why is the mcdonalds shitpost still up, but not my bigmac and mcdonalds related reply? How are we supposed to generate discussion on this image limit maxed bump fest?
>>42865415just janny things as he does it for free
>>42796085No that's his sister
>>42866839True
