Sorry, they have a mind of their own

[resonant]

Tentacle porn is all very well, but I think we've been missing opportunities in the area of tentacle romance.

- "Sorry, they have a mind of their own." "Yeah, OK, but why do they want to stroke my ear?"

- Went to sleep with hands touching. Woke up with a coil that encases your entire forearm.

- Two words: Tentacle hugs

- Two more words: Sucker kisses

Comments

[ride_4ever]

Tentacle romance -- what a delightful post (and makes me want to go reread my favorite dS tentacle!fic).

[resonant]

Ooh! I don't remember reading any tentacle stories in DS. Care to share a link?

[trobadora]

Oh! I would be here for that. :D

[resonant]

I figure human tentacles would be maybe about as automatic as eyelids -- you can control them consciously, but it will still keep moving even if you don't -- which would mean that it would be very difficult to prevent them from being so happy to see your platonic friend/partner/roommate/enemy that you'd spend a lot of time uncoiling them from the nape of his neck and saying, "Sorry."

[pauraque]

I mean, that's basically the premise of the Spider-Man 2 fic I never finished back in the day.

[resonant]

!

[kinetikatrue]

- Two more words: Sucker kisses

Sucker HICKIES, tho. Spiraling around both arms. Decorating the hickie-ee's entire neck. Wrapping around their waist like belts...

[resonant]

Nice! "Those are really impressive tattoos around your ankles." "Uh."

[marginaliana]

I love everything about this idea.

[resonant]

Ooh, what if humans with octopus-like tentacles also had an octopus-like ability to change the colors and patterns on their skin?

[china_shop]

Ooooh! I love this! Sucker kisses!

(There was a Guardian fic where Shen Wei's energy was a bit like that. It made me very happy.)

[resonant]

Energy with a mind of its own! I like it.

[realpestilence]

Scented oil tentacle massage.

[resonant]

Ooooohhh

[mific]

Galaxy Quest! Laliari and Fred Kwan would be so into tentacle romance!

[resonant]

[googles] Aww, so cute!

[ride_4ever]

Yeah! Laliari/Fred Kwan is CANON tentacle romance in Galaxy Quest!

[krait]

I have definitely read fics about this back in FF7 fandom!

[resonant]

I should have known I could count on fandom to see the romantic possibilities.

[adafrog]

heee! Love it.

[resonant]

"He used to keep them tucked up out of sight, but once I knew about them, they started taking my glasses off and rubbing my temples all the time."

[minoanmiss]

*contemplates delightedly*

[resonant]

Oh, and what a perfect icon.

[azurelunatic]

And additional opportunity for comedy: the tentacle that's holding the glass of wine forgets about the wine, or sort of rolls it up the tentacle so the tip can pet their hair...

[resonant]

Man, I can picture that roll-it-up-the-tentacle move so perfectly. (Can also picture this character at a cookout with a tentacle holding plate, fork, knife, beer, napkin, and four skewers of kebab.)

[stultiloquentia]

I recently learnt that octopuses do not possess stereognosis, that is, they don't know where their arms are unless they can see them. So they DO sort of have minds of their own and you COULD absolutely write the scene where your protagonist wakes up to find their oblivious, pining wereoctopus beloved with one arm stretched along the back of the couch in the dark, obliviously, longingly, petting their fuzzy undercut.

I learnt this because The Untamed fandom does in fact have a romantic wereoctopus AU in the form of a collection of odd but endearing Twitter threads.

[resonant]

Oh, that's so vivid with the furry undercut.

You fell asleep on his couch, and when you wake up, it's a complicated exercise to get the tentacle to unwrap from where it has crocheted itself with your bracelet.

[alexseanchai]

🥰🦑

[resonant]

I admit there's a certain amount of suspension of disbelief required to imagine tentacles that could support themselves in air rather than water. It's always useful if you can manage to live in a magic-realist universe.

[celli]

ilu

[resonant]

Then I hope you'll forgive me for this tentacle that keeps pulling the flowers out of the vase and putting them in your buttonholes. Not under my conscious control at all.