For a couple of years now, I've taken part in fandom charity auctions on LiveJournal, after natural disasters and the like. I have both offered items myself, and bid on the offerings of others.

Unfortunately, I seem to have had an amazing talent for picking fanartists (and fic authors) who never fulfill their offers in the end. I've made nearly thirty dollars' worth of charity donations for which I've never received the promised art or fic in return. (In some cases, after a full two years of waiting--and the artists have long since refused to answer my messages.) Even an auction moderator who offered to step in and fulfill my bids never came through.

So, I'm going to make this appeal. If any fanartist who reads this is inclined to return a good deed, I would be incredibly happy to receive a bit of fanart, in lieu of the works I never received from those delinquent artists/authors.

For the record, the requests I made in my auction bids were all related to the first "Fullmetal Alchemist" anime. There were a couple of particular things I had sought--feel free to contact me for specifics--but art based on my fanfiction would be eternally loved as well. You can see my fic at Prose Alchemist or my Fanfiction.net archive. (FWIW, my preferences are purely gen... unless anyone would happen to be interested in doing Edward/Noa, which is my preferred FMA pairing. *g*)