Here's a silly little whodunit I wrote on a dare:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10477172/1/A-Horrid-Thump

besleybean wrote:

1.  ACD.  He's  dead, so we can't ask him.  I'm also unaware of anything he particularly wrote about his characters or their story.

He spoke - very briefly - about the character of Holmes in a 1927 interview. He didn't really say much. https://archive.org/details/SirArthurConanDoyleSpeaks_272

besleybean wrote:

 I gather Holmes and Watson are based on real people that Doyle admired.

Holmes (His name in the rough draft was "Sherrinford") was modeled after Dr. Joseph Bell, who was able to diagnose a person's illness simply by looking at them.  http://www.siracd.com/work_bell.shtml Watson, originally to be named "Ormond Sacker," was a military man, a type of character Doyle had often used before. Watson's physical description (a middle-sized, middle-aged man with a mustache) could have been one of Doyle himself.

besleybean wrote:

So where does this leave us? Holmes is never shown to have been in any kind of romantic relationship.

Holmes refers to love and sentimentality as "grit in a sensitive instrument" and therefore destructive to the logical faculties. People have always wanted him to fall in love, though. He's paired most often with Irene Adler, who, according to Willaim Baring-Gould's sentimental pseudo-biography Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, bore him a child in 1892. That child would grow up to be Nero Wolfe. Yikes. (John D. Clark, 1956)

besleybean wrote:

Watson marries.

At least twice.  He also brags about an experience of women that extends over three continents. 
http://www.sherlockpeoria.net/Who_is_Sherlock/WatsonsWives.html

besleybean wrote:

bromance( a loving male freindship)is the most perfect thing.  To try and force it into something sexual, is somehow saying it is not good enough and is frankly demeaning.
I love homo-erotica, but that is not what BBC Sherlock is.

YES. ^^^ That.
 

I also love HP and Dr. Who.
I have a cousin in Nashville. Does that count?