Line #7 Webcomic/LoveAndTentacles


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2	''Love and Tentacles'' is a comic by Creator/{{Humon}}, of ''Webcomic/{{Niels}}'' and ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' fame. It takes place in an alternate universe in which humans coexist with the Tentacula, a race of, well, tentacle monsters ([[FantasticSlurs 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.
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4	The comic was [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170513023804/https://humon.deviantart.com/journal/How-tentaculas-are-made-346028194 discontinued due to Humon's personal loss of interest in the series.]] However, Humon later decided to not only give it a proper ending but [[http://scandia.store/product/the-love-and-tentacles-book release the series collected into book form]].
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6	!!''Love and Tentacles'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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8	* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:WordOfGod [[http://humon.deviantart.com/journal/How-tentaculas-are-made-346028194 confirms it]], although it's not exactly a heartwarming tale.]]
9	* BizarreAlienBiology: Tentaculas have three different types of tentacles - large manipulatory ones where arms should be, smaller ones where the legs should be used for locomotion, and tiny ones hidden in retractile slots around the waist that serve to indicate arousal and receive erotic stimulation, and a split tongue. They also practice external fertilization, much to Tom's {{Squick}}, and their mouth doubles as their sexual orifice.
10	* BizarreAlienReproduction: Tentaculas breed with females vomiting eggs into a convenient body of water, and then males vomiting sperm over the eggs. The larvae hatch, but are tiny little mindless predators; the hatchlings voraciously cannibalize each other until only one tentacula is left, which then matures into a fully sapient child and from there grows up into an adult.
11	* ConvenientlyCommonKink: Subverted. One of the reasons that Tom and Frida's relationship struggles is because the different anatomies means sexual activity for them revolves heavily around Frida anally penetrating Tom with her tentacles to stimulate his prostate, which Tom knows most guys will mock him for. In an ironic meta-commentary on Tom's fears, the author herself noted that when the readers learned this fact, she received a deluge of comments mocking Tom as unmanly and sexually pathetic.
12	* CuteMonsterGirl: Frida and her friend, Mona. Frida's ex is a male version.
13	* FantasticArousal: Due to the BizarreAlienBiology, which means they don't have human-like genitalia, tentaculas derive sexual stimulation and pleasure by the caressing of small, nerve-packed tentacles they keep in slits around their waist.
14	* FantasticRacism: Humans and Tentacula seem to have equal status in society, but mixed relationships are not yet fully accepted by either side.
15	* FreakyIsCool: According to [[http://humon.deviantart.com/art/A-true-friend-122362855?q=gallery%3Ahumon%2F9478119&qo=10 Nick]].
16	* InterspeciesRomance: The point of the comic.
17	* MultipleChoicePast: Humon considered several possible origins for the Tentacula, from the [[AlienInvaders extraterrestrial]] to the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent infernal]]. She eventually decided that they had been created in a lab and eventually freed and inducted into society.
18	* NiceGuy: Tom and Frida, to the point of being the straight man of their various friends and coworkers.
19	* NonhumansLackAttributes: Frida has no nipples.
20	* OrphanedSeries: Formerly applied to this series, which was discontinued because Humon herself got bored with it. [[AvertedTrope Later,]] she decided to give it a proper send-off, compiling the series into a book with new comics bringing the story to a close.
21	* OurNudityIsDifferent: Frida is embarrassed to discover she's been [[http://fav.me/d1ymfmq waving her smaller tentacles around]] in front of Tom's mother.

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