When he sees Faraday and Yr, the ferryman immediately thinks that they are both “very beautiful”,

DID I MENTION THAT FARADAY IS BEAUTIFUL IN THE LAST FIVE MINUTES SHE'S SO BEAUTIFUL YOU GIZE OMG

That's what you sound like, Douglass. That's exactly what you sound like.

So he grovels at Timozel’s side, calling him “[m]y lord” and smiling, which gives us a note about his “stained teeth”.

This guy being a sexist creep is Not Okay because he's Ugly. Axis is OMG SO HANDSOME so his own sexist creep behaviour is totally okay.

That aside, this feels quite weird from Timozel. I would expect this from a “badass” character, and Timozel has not been shown to care for that at all.

Yeah, this is right out of nowhere. This entire interlude is pointless anyway.

…While I can certainly sympathise with this attempt, doing it when Timozel is holding him by the throat strikes me as rather unwise and counterproductive, especially if it involves insults, like here.

How is he able to talk this much when he's being held up by the throat anyway?

A significant chunk is missing here!

I agree; Timozel's transformation into Evil Timmy is hopelessly rushed, and to make it worse, most of it is dictated rather than shown. Most notably in book two when right out of nowhere we're told that oh by the way he killed a kid while sleepwalking and it nearly drove him mad but never mind that it was never shown or mentioned up until now, at the last fucking minute.

This does make sense coming from the merchant, as gayness, from what I have seen, is looked down on in this society

Or rather it just straight-up doesn't exist, pun not intended. Which is pretty damn funny given all the Sapphic overtones that keep slipping into the text.

Good on him for deciding that a direct request from Faraday supersedes his general duty and for not getting angry; that would most probably have caused more trouble than it is worth.

And we all know this wouldn't have worked on Axis, the walking temper tantrum.

Faraday and Yr are both crying in the privacy the snow and their “hooded cloaks” give them.

Oh boo fucking hoo, they're finally shot of that gigantic asshole both of you barely knew. Get over yourselves.

I find it rather hard to see this as Faraday finally accepting that Jack is Much Like Her and letting go of her “irrational” mistrust.

Douglass, quit gaslighting your heroine. Her mistrust of that creep was entirely rational, not to mention justified.

She goes on to say that she has lost her mother (so there are some references to that, just not by name) and “the man she loved”,

YOU KNEW AXIS FOR FIVE FUCKING MINUTES. Christ on a cracker this is ridiculous.

how can she “cope with Borneheld” without Jack there?

You don't know Borneheld at all yet you're already whining about the idea of being married to him like it's going to be the worst thing ever? Grow up.

I get the distinct feeling Douglass ripped this off from such a scene in another work.

Same. It's just so generic and also right out of nowhere.

First off, I find Faraday and Yr are getting quite enough sexism already

Most of it from the author.

I would wish for something more than “rough soldiers throw lewd comments” or “slimy men are slimy”.

Same. It's cheap and dishonest and implies that only roughnecks and ugly guys can be sexist. When in reality it can come from just about any quarter, frequently including other women. And given the way Axis behaves, the heavy implication is that it doesn't "count" if the person doing it is highly placed in society and good-looking.