Wonderful!

And here - in "A Case of Identity" - there is an interesting idea Holmes has when saying to Watson: "If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hower over this great city..."

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I love this story!

Tee Hee.

No, cos sadly I couldn't go...growl!

From The Valley of Fear

           
It was late that night when Holmes returned from his solitary excursion. We slept in a double-bedded room, which was the best that the little country inn could do for us. I was already asleep when I was partly awakened by his entrance.
“Well, Holmes,” I murmured, “have you found anything out?”
He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. Then the tall, lean figure inclined towards me. “I say, Watson,” he whispered, “would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?”
“Not in the least,” I answered in astonishment.
“Ah, that’s lucky,” he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

Not my place to say whether it's offensive.  But it's not accurate! Or at least we can't know.  Except Watson was married and Holmes single.

Watson isn't short of words while describing men as well

He was young, not more than five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face - Engineer's Thump
The man whom I found myself facing was a well-built, fresh-complexioned young fellow, with a frank, honest face and a slight, crisp, yellow moustache. - The Stock-brocker's Clerk

It was never my intention to offend any one by starting this thread. I clearly used the word '(mis)interpret' in my first post. I thought it would be fun.  ACD had himself said, 'You may marry him or murder him or do whatever you like with him'"
By Johnlock I mean bromance. The word is used in apostrophe in the title of this thread .

Between a homosexual SH & JW and a platonic SH & JW relationship, I would definitely go for the latter. In my head canon it is always bromance

A quote from The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake, as if to say that the situation was within his powers, and that he was easy in his mind.

IMO, it's all fine. It's what literature is about. You can interpret it in one way or another. Our "Sherlock" is  ambigious and allows all kind of mind palaces to be created.
 

Sure, everyone can imagine Holmes and Watson being gay, or interpretate it that way. But I believe there is no reason to assume a homosexual relationship, so for me, it is nonsense and it kinda annoys me sometimes when I read interesting articles written by the creative and intelligent people here, and the ''Johnlock'' thing pops up.

Jacco111 wrote:

Sure, everyone can imagine Holmes and Watson being gay, or interpretate it that way. But I believe there is no reason to assume a homosexual relationship, so for me, it is nonsense and it kinda annoys me sometimes when I read interesting articles written by the creative and intelligent people here, and the ''Johnlock'' thing pops up.

 
There is no reason to assume it? I am quite sure that many people would disagree with that, but anyway... You can see Sherlock being strong, vulnerable,manipulative, childish, a fighter, cute, dark, funny, neutral to sexuality or impressed by Irene. You can see him with John as a friend, a collegue, a pet-figure or a boy-friend if you want. There is evidence to prove it all.

You might consider that the writers themselves are the creative and intelligent people who play with the "Johnlock". And if you look without bias you can easily see that the "Johnlock" enthusiasts are highly creative and intelligent people.
And IMO one of the achievements of "Sherlock" is that it brings all these different fans together to talk about it from every angle.