#The Beast of Hadingley Hill

[j--mno-art]

Coloured a sketch of Juliette and Mallory from The Beast of Hadingley Hill by @squigg-les

[li-vermin-il]

So I’ve been like obsessed with “ The Beast Of Hadingley Hill” by @squigg-les , had to draw best bby girl Juliette as a warm up ✨

Pls go check this WEBTOON out, it’s a gem

[possumcollege]

So emphatically would: Juliette from Beast of Hadingley Hill 💚

@squigg-les She's delightful as fuck. I would make her thousands of breakfasts and give her too many books about forests, animals, and obscure regional foods.

I also know a very nice hot spring in Costa Rica she'd like. Well, that anyone who enjoys being self-care-soup would like, but all the same. 💦

I'm re-reading the whole thing on Webtoons for like the 4th time. The characters are precious and infuriating and freakishly lovable.

(🥺 now 😚)

It's beautiful. Please go read it. Quit your job and read it.

[the-dorky-dame]

Art is always hard to be motivated about, until you have a research paper to write and suddenly everything except art is difficult haha.

This is how that dance should have ended! Cannot believe the audacity of Lucas and the King interrupting our girls!

Anyways, everyone please go read The Beast of Hadingley Hill on Webtoons by @squigg-les! It is absolutely gorgeous and beautifully written (I, like many others, couldn’t put it down).

[insectintrests]

Juliette from The Beast Of Hadingley Hill on Webtoon canvas :>

I loved her fit and had to draw it!

@squigg-les

[fingertip-kisses]

I’m signed up for one sad soup and spice girl romance. Please go read The Beast of Hadingley Hill by @squigg-les.

Juliette remembers her nanny’s stories. When she was six or seven years old, her nanny would comb through her curls and tell her about her hometown; the warm breeze, crushing waves and what it’s like to plunge under the saltwater. Little Juliette could not understand how longingly her nanny talked about swimming in the ocean. How there is nothing that saltwater could not solve. It sounded magical but in a good way rather than the trap they are in. Her nanny whispered, “The waves would marry you, my little Jule. It would wrap you in its arms and love you every bit.”

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That was the last time Juliette believed anyone could love her. She quickly learned how to be hated and abhorred. Afterall, Juliette was a bright child, perhaps too bright for her own good. Little Juliette wondered how anyone’s skin would crawl by looking at her when no one looked at her long enough. Glimpses were like daggers and barbs finding their ways under her skin despite of being covered from head to toe. She made sure to cover anything that could be her. She used to go to bed in her veils and gloves hoping she could become her second skin. She’d imagine her life as veils and gloves would be much lovelier, being touched and caressed everyday. 

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Once she was considered old enough, a line of suitors started. Juliette could not sleep the night before thinking about meeting her ‘true love’. She tried to imagine him and their first meeting. What would happen? Would he steal her breath away? Would he hold her hands and tell her that he loves her? Would the barrier disappear? Would the barrier disappear and free everyone? Would he free her from everyone who looks at her like an abomination?

Day after her first sitting, Juliette found herself without a lady in waiting. Lying in the middle of the destroyed room, Juliette wanted to be carried out of the palace with all her destroyed furniture. She wanted to be far away from where she is something that needs a royal command to be loved. Barely gazed at, Juliette sat through boys gritting their compliments at her. Her musing the night before was unnecessary. What she should have worried about was how to hold herself in one piece while sitting across from her suitors. She made back to her room because that was the only thing she could do. She didn’t remember exactly but she remembered a woman’s shriek among the sound of her room being destroyed. And Juliette could not have shrieked because last night she wasn’t a girl but a thing that deserved a name; a beast. A thing that deserved hatred.

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Juliette built a routine for her new ladies in waiting and herself. There is no befriending or instructions until Juliette unveils herself. Some left right away, either by themselves or carried out. Some stayed but never too long. None of them deserved Juliette’s attempts to be honest. Still not sure how to communicate her care for others, Juliette’s kindness was overlooked, wasted on the undeserved bunch. Whatever language Juliette spoke with embarrassment, Mallory understood. She understood every syllable and every dialect.

Mallory didn’t just stay but made a new life in the castle. Mallory made it her job to make sure Juliette was taken care of. Yes, it is the lady in waiting’s duty to do so but anyone who saw Mallory with Juliette can tell that that kind of gentleness is not a duty. If anyone witnessed them in private, when the storm rages and rages around Juliette, they would believe that magic is not just in the barrier but inside of it. When Mallory laid Juliette’s head down on her lap, what can it be but magic? What can it be but magic that centers Juliette.

She thinks the whooshing of silence heard from her right ear on Mallory’s lap is the closest thing she will get to the ocean. Her nanny used to make the sounds of waves crashing. Born with the barrier, Juliette never knew what the world can offer. But again, if Mallory can hold the ocean under her skin, what could the world possibly offer Juliette? The very ground under her feet becomes more stable and the sunlight that lays on her skin doesn’t inspire her own horror. Juliette is more eloquent with her love and care. It still comes out in a rush sometimes but she is more confident in voicing her care for Mallory. Juliette is a fast learner and this too, she excels. Juliette wants to be fluent in loving and maybe if she can take Mallory out of the barrier, she can even imagine loving a suitor. Whatever it may take, Juliette would do it with every bit of her for Mallory.

[edsheerankinnie]

Ok since i got started on WEBTOONS and webcomics or whatever u wanna call them, I think i should share some of my all-time favorites from that fuck-ass site:

Stagtown

Muted

Suitor Armor

Heir's Game

Asterion

Castle Swimmer

The Beast of Hadingley Hill

Miracle Simulator

Brimstones and Roses

LoveBot

Marry My Husband

Jackson's Diary

To the Stars and Back

Not So Shoujo Love Story

REEDS

literally all of A. Rasen's works

Some of these are finished and some of these are ongoing, but unfortunately a few (ahem, miracle simulator and marry my husband) cant be read in their entirety without spending money in the app. but otherwise yeah. comic

[gilmores-glorious-blog]

i haven’t opened the webtoon app in years but i saw something on instagram about the beast of hadingley hill and proceeded to binge-read the entire thing,,, it is so fucking good and i am very much obsessed 😭😭

[bluebstopcat]

Juliette, also from Hadingley Hill. I would die for these characters ong

[onceazzie]

You are the envy of the sun and the moon and the stars, Juliette thinks to herself, as Mallory’s voice becomes an ethereally calming background. The sky begs for you to come home, and yet you are here with me.

"azzie, are you studying for your exams--" NO. beast of hadingley hill fanfiction comes FIRST. okay but actually seriously, i love this webtoon so much. i WILL be writing more. this IS a warning. @squigg-les i do hope you enjoy this hehehe it was very fun to write! thanks for being an awesome author <3 <3

[eulaliaofthehighstone]

[shouts-into-the-void]

New Alien Stage video has absolutely destroyed me, but at least The Beast of Hadingley Hill let my emotional support lesbians cuddle so it all cancels out. PEMDAS or something

[skinkleminkle]

So I made my pfp on discord Juliette from TBOHH and here is a compilation of messages that made me realize she is so me

[possumcollege]

I am become 🥣.

[yomamasoooooocrust]

[lycancoffee]

Niche content time!!!

So there's this webcomic called the beast of hadingley hill and its really good so I. Shoujo'd it

Please read the beast of hadingley hill <3