Abt switch
The Abt switch is a kind of railway switch used on funiculars (inclined cable railways) that doesn't have any moving parts. It allows two cars to pass each other going uphill/downhill while sharing the same tracks. While most train switches rely on physically moving a section of track so the train goes one way or the other, the abt switch doesn't move at all. Instead each carriage has a grooved wheel which makes it turn left or right at a junction by sticking to the track on one side.
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What do you think draws trans femmes so much to playing tieflings? No shade, I do it and did it as an egg as often as possible too. BG3, my tav was a tiefling
you can have weird eyes and beautiful horns with like accessories hanging from them and you can be all succubus hot and sharp fangs and nails and....uh so yeah what's not to like?
also fun fact, all my pfps that I've used on the site have been tiefling art from various artists
I'm not sure if it goes this deep, but in lore tieflings are often mistrusted and ostracized just for the nature of their existence so there's, y'know, some resonance there. There also may be some crossover with reclamation of satanic iconography and such, in the same vein as like rainbow baphomet.
But, idk, personally I just think they're cool. Tieflings are queer.
(I also personally like the juxtaposition of being a tiefling paladin or a tiefling light cleric, but that may also just be because I was a draenei main in wow)
I also played my share of tiefling paladins lol
Thatβs so goddamn funny, the only dnd campaign I played was a tiefling while I was egged up
they are cute, often depicted as manys like "ideal body proportions" or whatnot, "human"-shaped while still being like, different shaped (and still havin tiddies), also like relatable-ish experiences with all the tiefling discrimination thats often portrayed
they also just look really cool and dragonborn dont have tits :c
no one wants to play as a normie human for some reason. Itβs kind of edgy and goth. It plays into our literal demonization.
maybe humans should try sucking less idk :3
funnily enough I always opted for either humans or dwarves. sometimes half elves