I don't know how to articulate this well, but I really fucking hate the way a lot of thin writers write fat characters. Like how men write women "breasting boobily" there is something so dehumanizing about how fat characters are often written. "He waddled", "he lumbered", the writer of the book I'm reading always mentions this characters "fleshy hand" when he does something with his hand. Like, we already know that he's fat. There is no need to describe everything he does as "doing it fatly".
*fishes this absolute treasure from the tags*
"If you let her she could engulf you; the woman was a city"
This mirrors Vimes's introduction, where he's lying in the gutter thinking about how Ankh-Morpork is a city that's like a woman. And then, later, he thinks Sybil is like a city.
The books often repeat that A-M is Vimes's whole world; if he could get away with never leaving, he would.
The city of Ankh-Morpork is his whole world. Sybil is like Ankh-Morpork, so Sybil is his whole world
