I really don't think you can disentangle this character from his place in fandom as the posterboy for boyslash (and thus his place in fandom as a male character).

I'm sorry for making you uncomfortable with my nomination.

But I don't agree with you that Being One Half Of A Juggernaut Ship is a sufficient reason to exclude a character from an exchange. And I don't see anything in the Nomination rules about popularity.

This isn't like the Black Sails Silverflint exchange, where it's all one ship, all the time. This is about participants nominating and requesting what they want to see, and hopefully getting it.

To make an analogy - Silverflint is absolutely the juggernaut ship in Black Sails fandom. That doesn't mean that in other exchanges (not this one, obv.) people aren't allowed to write Silver with other people.

You're right: there are a lot of A/C fics that tag as M/M. There are also 164 fics that tag Crowley as genderfluid (https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Genderfluid%20Crowley%20(Good%20Omens)/works). There are 148 works tagged with the female identity Crowley uses in ep 1. (https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Nanny%20Ashtoreth%20(Good%20Omens)/works) There are 59 works tagged Female Crowley (https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Female%20Crowley%20(Good%20Omens)/works), and 68 in Crowley Has A Vulva (https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Crowley%20Has%20A%20Vulva%20(Good%20Omens)/works).

That's not peanuts.

I wouldn't kick up a fuss about this if not for the character's fannish presence.

Aren't exchanges like this for exploring the characters and relationships and interpretations that aren't popular? For helping participants get the fics they've always wanted to see, but can't, because they're not popular enough?

Thank you for explaining your point of view.

EDIT:
Messed up some of the links. Fixed now.