I like it best when it's the "creepy monster from the depths" type, not so much the "human with normal human motivations has tentacles." It's important to me that there's an element of horror and a sense of sinister purpose. For that reason, the Landeskog tentacle fill on the kink meme was so damn good to me. A literal creepy monster from the depths! So great.
Re: Trope talk- Tentacle fic