In order to avoid worsening my winter cabin-fever melancholy, I decided to choose a country it would be completely impossible to visit. It would have to be a place that makes me happy in theory, yet one I would never want to experience. To this end, I spent an inordinate amount of time over the past week researching city-states and the history of a place that doesn't exist.

Behold the product of my snow-induced boredom and attempt to break myself out of seasonal sadness with silliness and the accomplishment of creation: an official licensed Ankh-Morpork souvenir cabbage mug from the city-state of Ankh-Morpork, independent entity or capitol of the Kingdom of Ankh or of the loosely united states of the Sto Plains, dependent on your timeline. Premier city of Terry Pratchett's anachronistic misfit fantasy setting of Discworld and quite likely my favourite place I'd never want to go.


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I will admit I'm not really happy with this one in terms of execution. But the main purpose of doing it was to break out of a funk I've been in for a while, drag out the camera, and start something new no matter how small. In that, it succeeded, and that was far more important than points. Hopefully I will get to some awesome tasking next, or even some awesome not-tasking, and having a better time of it as spring comes.

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