Brandon Varnell

Incubus 5

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. 

Huo Schushang!

Huo Schushang might LOOK like an arrogant young master with a cowlick, but he's actually a good guy. You'd bromance him. Don't lie to me!

STNS: Chapter 280

North of their current location was the Ice Phoenix Mountain Range, which passed through the border between the Shang and Zhou Kingdoms. A sprawling forest lay at the mountain range’s base. That forest was where Zhou Lihua’s and Master Wong Jiu’s were currently racing through.

Zhou Lihua did not know how long she had been running for. She’d left Wu Jian at the river, which must have been several dozen lî away at the very least. It did not sit well with her that she was being fo...

STNS: Chapter 279

Wu Jian did not know the names of his attackers, so he decided to call them Blonde and Black, based off their hair color. The blonde woman had an affinity for lightning and fire techniques. Black had an affinity for wind. It was actually her strong wind affinity that allowed her to move faster than normal. He’d already figured out that she was using the wind to negate air resistance so she could move faster than his eyes could track. If it wasn’t for the clear killing intent she released ...

Gyaru Gals!

Just some art I commissioned.  This is what Wu Meiying, Hou Jingshu, and Zhou Lihua would look like as Gyaru.

WIEDERGEBURT: Missadventures at Nevaria Academy - Chapter 1

Kari Astralia woke up bright and early, got dressed in her academy uniform, and left home before her fathers or older brothers woke up.

The early morning sun shone over head as she walked down the cul de sac in Kawagoe Prefecture.

Just what was the princess of Nevaria doing in a Japanese prefecture? Who knows. Please ignore that and focus on the story.

Kari was a brand new freshman all set to attend Nevarian Spiritualist Academy. It was a special academy that only the wealth...

STNS: Chapter 278

Four men attacked Wu Jian before he could even think of helping Zhou Lihua. Each wielded a guanddao. They thrust their weapons forward, launching lightning from their blades. None of these techniques was powerful enough to kill him on their own, but he would likely not survive if every one of those techniques hit him. At the same time, four other men surrounded Zhou Chao and the remaining dozen went after Zhou Lihua and Master Wong Jiu.

[Black Hole]

Wu Jian clicked his tongue as h...

STNS: Chapter 277

Cì Chuān watched the caravan with Zhou Lihua go with a smile, though it vanished the moment her caravan disappeared from sight. How annoying it was that he had no choice but to part from her. It would only be for a little while, however. Yes, it was just a temporary parting. They did say absence made the heart grow fonder, and what little time they were apart would be made up for soon enough.

Yes. Very soon.

The palace he returned to was almost completely empty. His father and b...

Huǒ Shuchang - sketch

March 2023 - Newsletter

Readers,

March is upon us, which means it is spring! Although it doesn't feel like spring yet. I swear, the weather doesn't want to cooperate this year at all. It was raining for the past several days and so it's been kinda cold and dreary, which is weird for a desert.

Anywho, I have a few things to announce this month. 2023-03-07 16:10:41 +0000 UTC View Post

STNS: Chapter 276

Wu Jian wasn’t sure how much time had passed since he entered the isolation room for training. He knew neither how long it took to break through, how long he spent stabilizing his cultivation, nor the time it took to research his newfound powers.

Entering the Human Limit Realm had vastly increased the amount of chi at his disposal. His reserves were nearly three times larger than what they had been before. Now it made sense why so many people had been shocked that he’d defeated some...

STNS: Chapter 275

Wu Meiying sat at her desk, tapping her quill against a scroll of parchment.

The desk was a work of art. Ornate designs painted in gold flowed elegantly across the silver surface, glimmering in the sunlight pouring through the open entrance. She rarely ever used this desk, so it often sat in a corner, but she had brought it out today because she had something important she needed.

On the parchment was a list of ingredients, some of which were quite obscure like the hair of a unico...

A Little Lilian

Can you guess what scene from American Kitsune this is?

STNS: Chapter 274

It would take a normal human traveling by carriage almost five months to go from Heavenly Sword Mountain to the Yuan Peninsula. Not only did they have to cross the immense Xia Dynasty, but there were several large landforms and rough terrain that could not be traversed by normal means. After traveling through the one nation, they would reach Song Country, which they would also have to traverse before finally reaching the Yuan Peninsula.

For a Seeker Realm cultivator like himself, it wou...

STNS: Chapter 273

No one spoke for several moments. Wu Meiying didn’t blame them. Hearing that a disaster was looming over them would cause anyone to freeze.

She glanced around the room, noticing the looks being directed her way. They obviously knew she was the reason this meeting had been called. No doubt, these people wanted to know what she had seen.

“What kind of disaster is going to befall us?” asked an old man. He had no hair. His shiny bald head reminded Wu Meiying of a cueball. He had...

American Kitsune Webtoon: Tail 3

STNS: Chapter 272

Wu Meiying set down in front of the sect master’s residence and walked to the entrance, where a pair of guards snapped to attention as they allowed her to pass. Anyone else would have been stopped. She had cemented her position within the sect, however, and now, nobody dared to stand in her way.

Except one person.

“Wu Meiying, I see you’ve finally come to pay your respects to the sect master after so many months in isolation, and yet, you have not once come to pay your respe...

STNS: Chapter 271

Wu Meiying paid no attention to the storm clouds gathering overhead. She had experienced this breakthrough so many times before that such a sight no longer phased her. How many times had she broken through the Deva Realm now? She had survived every time but two out of the many hundreds of times she had done this, and the only reason she hadn’t survived those two was because her enemies found her while she was breaking through.

She sat cross-legged in the middle of her cultivation zone...

American Kitsune Webtoon: Tail 2

STNS: Chapter 270

Huo Yi was inside of his isolation chamber, legs crossed as he sat in the center of a massive sealing array. He had been there ever since the meeting with Emperor Cì Shā.

He was at the peak of the Human Limit Realm like the other Four Great Pavilion Sect Masters. And just like the others, he had been attempting to break into the Deva Realm. Also, just like the other sect masters, he had been unsuccessful.

Cultivators hoping to break through to the Deva Realm could not use alchem...

STNS: Chapter 269

Explosions rocked the atmosphere as Yi Fu chased after Hua Xue. The old-looking man following close behind her propelled himself forward with fire blasting from his feet to increase his speed. Hua Xue sadly could not outpace him without unlocking more of her power, which she hesitated to do because of the backlash she would receive.

“Don’t think you can run away from me!!”

“Tch.”

Clicking her tongue as she felt Yi Fu come up behind her, Hua Xue spun around and thru...

American Kitsune Webtoon: Tail 1

STNS: Chapter 268

“Hou Chāo…?”

The young man sitting with his knees curled into his chest was undoubtedly the second prince of the Shang Kingdom, but he looked so different that it took Hua Xue several moments to recognize him. His hair had become thinner, his body emaciated, and his face gaunt. The dead expression on his face and blank stare reminded her of a corpse. She might have assumed he was dead if he wasn’t breathing.

“They threw… the second prince of the Shang Kingdom in this ...

STNS: Chapter 267

It was late in the evening. Most everyone was already asleep. Hua Xue meditated inside of Xing Hua’s room, which was covered in a thick layer of ice. The real Xing Hua was sitting in the center, in a meditative position, but her body was frozen solid. Hua Xue had attacked the woman before she’d even realized someone was present. She was still alive. The ice would thaw once Hua Xue completed her task here.

Hua Xue took a deep breath, which caused the icy mist around her to swirl insi...

Incubus 5 Cover reveal.

Just a cover reveal.

WIEDERGEBURT Side-Stories: Caught in the Act

This side story is set between volumes 3 and 4. 

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A few days had passed since they moved into their new house. It was a lot more spacious than that old room they had lived in previous. Lin approved. She always found it difficult to remain in that tiny bedroom. It had been so small! She couldn’t even fit on the bed!

By contrast, the bed she had been given now could fit a...

Zhou Lihua Art Preview

This is next month's art. Since I've had both Wu Meiying and Hou Jingshu drawn, this month, I am going to have Liremi draw Zhou Lihua.

STNS: Chapter 266

Several days had passed since Hua Xue infiltrated the Burning Hands Sect. She had stolen the identity of an Outer Court Disciple. Gathering intelligence would have been easier if she’d stolen an Inner Court Disciple’s identity, but they were all well-known individuals. It would have been impossible to pretend she was one of them.

The girl whose identity she had stolen was not only relatively new but had no friends to speak of. She had carefully observed the girl before replacing her...

STNS: Chapter 265

“It’s done.”

Zhou Lihuwa wiped the sweat from her forehead and admired the pill she had finally formed after what felt like several days of work. The Chilling Bone Pill had a few lumps, signs that it wasn’t the highest grade. She had had some issues figuring out what temperature a few of the ingredients required. Even so, she had managed to refine it on her first try, so she would consider this a success.

The Bone Chilling Pill was a dull gray. It looked like iron condense...

STNS: Chapter 264

Zhou Lihua and Wu Jian followed Zong Mu the halls of the Alchemist Association. Many people were present, wandering down the halls or exiting and entering refining rooms. Everyone moved aside when they passed and turned their heads to watch as she walked by. Most of these people had likely been present during the tournament and had seen her in action.

The area they were in right now was called the Refining Hall. It was a pagoda with sixteen floors and over a hundred rooms on each floor....