Luna doesn’t need for anyone to accept her affections in reality; she can just make them have wet dreams about her.

@anonymouspegasus  
Modifying this comment a bit.
 
Let’s also consider the fact that Luna may or may not be entering stalker territory and potentially uses the daydreams to make them wild over Big Mac, making their obsessions overblown so that Mac rejects them and manipulates him into liking her.
 
Not sure if repeating or adding something new there

@monolyth  
The fact that she found him and kissed him on the ferris wheel AFTER he rudely dumped her sort of indicates that to me.

@Star Cavalcade
 
Me too,considering she’s even more of a stalker than Tea Love or Fleetfoot (and didn’t had concussions either).
 
@Background Pony Number 17
 
His reasons for ditching her are justified,I mean she was pretty much forcing him to participate with her in the hunt and even though he went along with it for the most part,he still had a job to do and had to go.
 
But in the end,he still spent some time with her at the carnival later.
 
We can pretty much say they became at least friends.
 
So yeah,is sort reciprocated in terms of friendship.It doesn’t have to be “OMG they are pouncing each other now,IT’S CANONZ!” That would be obviously pushing it.
 
Of course,and like I said before,shippers can use these interactions to feed the ship romantically,but hey that’s what shippers do normally.At last they have some actual interactions and material to work on.

@Background Pony Number 17  
Well it’s one thing to get caught up in the carnival experience and participate in contests, and quite another to choose to get into a ferris wheel with someone of the opposite sex.

@Amber  
I’m surprised that Sweetcream Scoops didn’t make more of an effort.

@Amber  
Well, if you count Mac ditching Luna during the scavenger hunt as “reciprocation”, I suppose so. It was pretty obvious the Princess wasn’t his type.

@monolyth  
Possibly sexual.

Even though she was using him for her own reasons.

Hah, nice.

@Amber
 
If it’s about friendship, then I agree.

A new Ship leaves the harbor.

@Background Pony
 
>but only LunaMac was reciprocated or acted upon.
 
The correct wording is: But Lunamac were only ones that got actual interactions.
 
Fleetfoot and Tea Love were only daydreaming about him while Luna actually approached him and interacted with him.
 
Of course,we can take those interactions to feed the ship(romantically speaking)but still,we can’t genuinely determine they became an actual couple until the writers become a bit less subtle.
 
Now,if we say that this is a reciprocated friendship? I would say yes.Kinda like Big mac and Cheerilee.

Can’t help but laugh at the smooch on the wheel there. Is this comic over with? Hope they do a bit of a scene where AJ gives Mac some pokes/prods over Princess Luna kissing him.

@Star Cavalcade  
…that actually makes this turn creepy. Instead of threatening them about taking Macintosh away from her, Luna could make them have the fantasies (as daydreams) that make them obsessive over Big Mac. While Macintosh would be running away from them since they’re stalking him, he’d run to Luna who he had decent interaction with and become more friendly towards her.
 
Although Big Mac would be crazy for not simply running to Luna in the first place. cough cough

So who is in charge of visions sustained through concussions? Is that Luna’s department or Celestia’s since they’re happening through the day?

I think what OP is trying to tell us is that we should all stop fantasizing about being in a relationship a boy/girl and actually go outside to interact with a real boy/girl.
 
Like what normal people do. So be like Luna and be social. Or else.

Oddly theres a fanfic where in a subplot Luna had brought Big Mac’s father to life and they have sexaul reationship

@CronoM
 
>reciprocated
 
Huh?

@Align  
Precisely.
 
They’re nice ships, but only LunaMac was reciprocated or acted upon.

Maybe the point is that Luna is only interested in Big Mac because ponies are dreaming about him.

I THINK WHAT THE OP IS TRYING TO SAY IS THAT LUNAMAC.

I think what OP is trying to say, is that Luna wants to be Big Mac’s friend.

I guess the joke is the others just fantasize about Mac while Luna goes out there and gets him?