My favourite story

I thought Yoshuan's "Serena" story was one of the most exciting and promising series I have read since I started exploring this genre. I want him to finish it someday, but I totally understand how real life can get in the way... which is probably why I have about 20 unfinished stories sitting on my hard drive right now.
I also love AK's "Julie", especially early-on when she was discovering her abilities slowly while trying to maintain a life outside of being a heroine. That type of stuff makes characters seem much more real to me. When a writer can portray things going beyond picking up something heavy or flying to the moon and show a young goddess dealing with her first breakup or a death of someone close or hurting someone she cares about with her powers... same with "A New Supergirl In Town", "Kathy", & "Superior Girl".
While I'm not particularly a fan of Kerry Smith personally, I think that his sporatic writings in the past have been excellent, particularly the dialogue and imagery of a superwoman simply showing her power over someone. Very well-written and it's a shame that he (she? I never got that figured out completely) feels that they have to put that (and other possibly copyrighted material) behind a paypal account. Oh well.
Marknew (usually found at DtV) is amazing at coming up with great and enticing situations to put his characters in, but is sometimes a bit too graphic for my tastes.
And Shadar/Sharon Best... do I even need to mention this? Aurora and early Kara and Firebug is as influential as the Beatles' White Album in my opinion.
Newer promising great authors that I love new material from is Ronn Mann, Larafan (I'm waiting for more SuperJen), Conceptfan, David C Matthews, and a lot of what I'm reading from the workshops. Well done everyone.

That said (while holding back much more praise where it's due), does anyone remember a series that I only remember linked off the old AU involving almost anime-like characters? I can't recall the name of the stories, but I always wondered what happened to them or the author? Anyone?

score 100 points for lfan. the next trick would be finding out who has all of this old content stored on their computer... the archived AU isn't pulling up anymore, and even if it was, I don't think it had a link to it. hmmmm

My favrite is Larafan's Lara The Awakening.

Ascension by taliesan

lovely writing, and came in a time were most stories wre about bad supergirls. I even sent him an email.