People need to chill out.

One thing I never understood is why whenever a show has a pairing, fans go ballistic and claim it ruined their ships. For example, in the episode, "Hard to Say Anything", Big Macintosh started dating Sugar Belle, and many fans who shipped him with Miss Cheerilee or other characters were not happy. In the recent episode "The Maud Couple", Maud Pie now has a boyfriend named Mudbriar. Fans are going nuts, claiming their fanfics shipping Maud with Starlight Glimmer, Trixie, or other characters, are ruined. Some fans are even saying Pinkie Pie should have literally broken him open like a rock.

I for one, don't mind this development at all. In my story, The Lost Hero, I ship Maud Pie with a dimension displaced Superman, Flash Sentry (the pony version, not the Equestria Girls version) with Trixie, and believe it or not, Daring Do with Prince Blueblood. If the show ever contradicts my fics, I'm not going to just drop them.

And why are fans whining about this? Fanfics are alternate universes, and the only things we have full control over. With the possible exception on a rumor I heard: (that the nuclear amounts of hate mail Hasbro got over the existence of Flash Sentry is the reason why his role got reduced and his ship with Twilight Sparkle was sunk), we have no input on the direction of the show.