@Background Pony #A8C7  
No, I did question it too, but at least FlutterMac lived in the same town.

@Background Pony #F432  
They’re both popular musical ponies, and people like the “opposites attract” cliche. I don’t understand why people don’t get that. Did everyone ask why Fluttermac shipping existed before they finally had a brief scene where they were on the screen at the same time?

@G.S.  
I don’t understand ScratchTavi and how it became so popular in the first place. They never met and it just seems so random to me. Even right now… I just don’t care for it.

Straight > Slash, so I greatly prefer this one.
 
Plus, it has better shading. Woo, shading!

I HNNNGed so hard my floor turned to HNNNG.

@Vree  
>the artist admittedly vectored off another one
 
You know they can edit that in afterwards at any time, right? Don’t be naive to how dA works.

@Vree
 
First, it was suspicious for me, so I scrolled down to see the comments. Only the today ones were seen. Probably, because the pic with the older comments was still not merged.
 
Second, I should really go on and trace some work. I see a pic with many hundreds scre, for example one with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, and then turn it into Cherry Berry and Shoeshine. Cherry and Shoeshine should recieve much attention then.

@bluemeganium  
sigh Dude.  
One, the upvotes are because I shamelessly stole somebody’s lowerres upload, which got merged (with votes & comments) into this new one. You notice those “8 months ago” comments at the top? Clever fillies sometimes even watch out for them.
 
Second, it’s an art piece that the artist admittedly vectored off another one (go visit their DA page) and actually put much work into redrawing and shading. The heck are you complaining about?
 
However, to give you an actual reason for your daily weltschmerz, I adivse you go visit the “edit” tag. Therein you will find pictures that belong to some much better artist only with some nonsensical ugly detail added, yet have dozens of upvotes from people who never bothered to check. Your complaining now actually has some basis. Happy? :3

@bluemeganium
 
An older pic was merged into this one.
 
But yeah, Derpibooru loves traces and recolors.

I can’t AAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW hard enough for this
 
SOMEONE HELP

@dt
 
Loololol….  
Traced picture - with a bit more shading. 100 pts after an hour.  
And I still wonder, why my ponies get no upvote galores…

@dt  
At least they put effort into the shading.

Dat shading.

I love this pairing.