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Published: 2015-08-11 00:15:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 6695; Favourites: 79; Downloads: 34
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"Weeks of study... WASTED..." 

- Twilight Sparkle

Well, this took quite a bit of effort to make.
As I mentioned in the preview, this is my first time actually drawing a "real" background from the show, so I had to constantly look at pictures of the cafe in both its main appearances (season 1 and 3, as far as I know) and mimic it as closely as possible. Aside from taking much longer to draw, it made consistency between panels even harder to maintain than usual since there were a whole bunch of extra details to worry about.

I also had a fair bit of trouble making the waiter pour the flipping coffee. He has no hands and no magic, and I imagined that any attempts at holding the coffee pot with his mouth would have ended in tragedy, so I had to fiddle around with different poses until I found one that worked. And after all that, it was still unclear what he was doing in the fifth panel, so I had to draw the fourth to clarify.

All in all, I learned a bit about backgrounds and pastel pony anatomy, and I did the thing and made the comic and it's only a mere five days late; the lateness can mostly be attributed to friends, family, and the fact that I start college in the next two weeks.

Also, you can see the preview I put up over here: lordsquishy.deviantart.com/art…

EDIT: Featured on Equestria Daily!
Link: www.equestriadaily.com/2015/08…

Tumblr: the-queeg.tumblr.com/post/1263…

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Comments: 27

ColetteClark21 [2016-04-19 11:08:13 +0000 UTC]

 
And then, Twilight went loco in the coco. Oh dear!

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Cliffthewolf In reply to ColetteClark21 [2021-06-29 14:37:45 +0000 UTC]

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xXInSaNiTy1912Xx [2016-01-23 15:49:54 +0000 UTC]

I hate when that happens! It's like, I JUST WANT TO FINISH MY WATER, THANK YOU, KIND SIR.

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Animatorsnake [2015-08-24 17:06:38 +0000 UTC]

wait how's he pouring it, he doesn't have a horn and his mouth has that metal plate thingy... HIS A WIZARD

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thatwhatthing In reply to Animatorsnake [2015-08-26 02:34:25 +0000 UTC]

It's hard to see, but he's holding it in his hoof.
I wish he was a unicorn just so it'd have been easier to draw him pouring the darned coffee!

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Animatorsnake In reply to thatwhatthing [2015-08-27 15:34:59 +0000 UTC]

OHHHH yeah i see it now thank you

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SilentCarto [2015-08-23 22:16:37 +0000 UTC]

God, I know that feel...

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Twylite-Sparkle [2015-08-12 12:36:45 +0000 UTC]

lol dat face when her finding got ruined.

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AJR001 [2015-08-12 12:17:24 +0000 UTC]

That waiter is going to get a rude coffee-based awakening in the near future...

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coolclaytony [2015-08-12 12:11:52 +0000 UTC]

Hey waiter, you're supposed to ASK the customer before topping off their coffee, are you new or something? Sheesh!

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thatwhatthing In reply to coolclaytony [2015-08-12 20:33:18 +0000 UTC]

I once had a waiter pour coffee into my cup while he asked me if I wanted more coffee.
I didn't want more coffee, but that didn't really matter since he'd already poured it.
At least he had the politeness to ask...

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tigreanpony [2015-08-12 11:02:18 +0000 UTC]

That was great, I could actually see this happening. too funny.

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QuantumBranching [2015-08-12 06:07:58 +0000 UTC]

"And that's why it was a perfectly justifiable ponycide, your Honor."

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ThatChaosDude In reply to QuantumBranching [2015-08-12 10:11:12 +0000 UTC]

"Equuillocide", actually.

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fotland42 [2015-08-12 05:15:53 +0000 UTC]

Two words: magnet hooves.

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NoradTwo [2015-08-12 01:28:37 +0000 UTC]

Uh oh

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MidwestBrony [2015-08-12 00:31:57 +0000 UTC]

Well done comic!  I was wondering if it would be okay to vector that last frame some time.  Probably wouldn't be any time soon, but I'd credit you and send a note when it happens.

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thatwhatthing In reply to MidwestBrony [2015-08-12 05:55:10 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the compliment! And sure, I don't mind if you vector the last frame, so long as I get credit.

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Rockpath5 [2015-08-12 00:01:23 +0000 UTC]

The perfect coffee to sugar ratio is 1:0. No calculations needed!

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tyruvelp In reply to Rockpath5 [2015-08-12 00:32:18 +0000 UTC]

1:20 

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MidnightWonko [2015-08-11 20:28:47 +0000 UTC]

Classic joke. I saw something like it in a Donald Duck comic one fine Sunday morning.

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angelstar063 [2015-08-11 20:12:48 +0000 UTC]

That's me xD

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DragonLW [2015-08-11 19:43:49 +0000 UTC]

And then the cafe burnt down in a tragic and entirely unavoidable magical burst.   

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EqDBot [2015-08-11 19:20:02 +0000 UTC]

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LaVallett1 [2015-08-11 14:24:41 +0000 UTC]

She could have tried the experiment at home instead of at a restaurant.

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thatwhatthing In reply to LaVallett1 [2015-08-11 15:27:16 +0000 UTC]

True, but perhaps she wanted to test it on restaurant coffee specifically so she would know exactly what ratio to use while having coffee somewhere other than her own home?
Or, thanks to her weeks of experimentation, her coffee maker at home is broken from overuse and she hasn't had time to replace it?
Or maybe she made a breakthrough while outside her magical crystal castle house and couldn't wait to get home to test it?

Or I just didn't think it through until I'd already started drawing the comic.
That's always a possibility. 

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LaVallett1 In reply to thatwhatthing [2015-08-12 16:16:56 +0000 UTC]

Could be, could be.

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