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Webcomic: Love and Tentacles

A comic by Humon, of Niels and Scandinavia and the World fame. It takes place in an alternate universe in which humans coexist with the Tentacula, a race of, well, tentacle monsters (but don't call them that). The central characters are Tom (human) and Frida (Tentacula), a committed couple coping with the fact that their relationship challenges social norms—both the ones they encounter in public and the ones they have internalized in their own heads.

Tropes used in this Web Comic include:

Anything That Moves: Mona, Frida's coworker who is "sex crazy even by Tentacula standards".
Bizarre Alien Biology: Tentaculas have three different types of tentacles, and a split tongue. They also practice external fertilization, much to Tom's Squick.
Cute Monster Girl: Frida and her Mona. Frida's ex is a male version.
Fantastic Racism: Humans and Tentacula seem to have equal status in society, but mixed relationships are not yet fully accepted by either side.
Interspecies Romance: The point of the comic.
Multiple Choice Past: Humon considered several possible origins for the Tentacula, from the extraterrestrial to the infernal. She eventually decided that they had been created in a lab and eventually freed and inducted into society.
Naughty Tentacles: Well, duh.
Nice Guy: Tom and Frida, to the point of being the straight man of their various friends and coworkers.
Our Nudity Is Different: Frida is embarrassed to discover she's been waving her smaller tentacles around in front of Tom's mother.