OTHER PEOPLE ARE ALL THERE IS

girl: im coming over!! you better not be microwaving His Grace, His Excellency, The 1st Duke of Ankh; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes when i get there!!

I find it funny that Sam Vimes, Samuel "Sam Vimes' Boot Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness" Vimes, goes out of his way to get the cheapest and most worn boots imaginable, for the explicit purpose of navigating Ankh-Morpork like Toph from fucking Avatar.

These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.

My favourite description of this is in Guards! Guards!

How do you picture the height difference between Sam Vimes and Lady Sybil and in which direction? (I've always pictured her as the taller one, personally)

Please... Guards guards vimes with Errol? 🥺