Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

Anonymous asked: hey so im slow and only just chewed my way through TPoH (which is SO GOOD THANKS) and something occurred to me when RGB is getting his wooden horse shoes- is the fact that they use copper nails significant? bc I recall the copper nails can be used to kill trees or prevent them regrowing and such

welcome aboard, and good spot! there’s a few reasons but the main ‘logic’ reason was, because of that tree-killing quality of copper nails, I thought they would be more likely to end up in the Market, as they would more easily have some imbued thought, memory, and significance in a narrative sense. Killing a tree is a big deal and so I rather liked the ceremonial nature of copper nails, alongside the connotations that brought with using them to attaching wooden horseshoes (part of a dead tree) to his feet in order for him to traverse the desert. Copper also has neat alchemical and spiritual symbolism attached to it and is used in wiring for electrical appliances like TVs so I mean, bonuses all round.