Stumbled across this a couple months ago...it was really awesome, I fell totally in love with it. At the time I did a bit of digging around for other info about it and found, first of all, that there was a translation of a later update by Medley from 2ch in this shoujoai.com thread.
And also from a thread on /u/ that Medley actually keeps a real life twitter (with occasional mentions of Huskey) here.
Finally I also discovered an apparently pretty classic Vocaloid song which was inspired and dedicated to them, Sweetiex2, as well as a subsequent NicoNico dance meme.
Altogether this entire story and its legacy is just an incredible thing.
Sol you are a blessing. Thank you so much for your research.
I read their story for the first time years(?) ago, but didn't doubt that it was truly based on a real-life couple; my second reread, however - alongside a backup of the original thread - occurred after I suddenly began wondering if it could have all just been the creative endeavour of a bored author. Ironically, it was my accidental discovery of Sweetiex2 that prompted this shadow; after the initial elation and heart-warmth of realizing that one of my favourite Vocaloid producers and composers had actually written and dedicated such an adorable song to them, I began to really worry about the authenticity of the account. Husky&Medley was one of my first introductions to yuri, and still my favourite, but years later, it's somehow become much more significant to me than just yuri; I guess seeing the honest support from allies made it that more important to me that it be real.
I haven't read many accounts of real-life same-sex relationships, so I can't draw up any comparisons, but the fact that random topic readers became allies and seriously gave Medley advice and help when she needed it, in a country that still doesn't officially recognize the LGBT world, gave me hope. Repression is more common than acceptance, and heterosexuality is still the only(?) norm, hence the "But...we're both girls" mindset that seems to irk so many North American readers; I find that in North America, LGBT issues are still only accepted in varying levels everywhere, but at least it's treated seriously, whereas I think in Japan, for example, "yuri" is mostly regarded as either fiction or a normal, passing adolescent phase that girls grow out of. Given a nonchalant attitude like that, I imagine it's much easier for them to grow up thinking that GL isn't real. Not all brush it off, but I feel that retaliatory reaction tends to spark rebellion against rigid norms more often than passive-aggressive resistance or normalizing reassurance.
I'm rather fatigued and am probably taking this more seriously than I should be, so I'll stop my rant here ;; I just wanted to thank the people involved with this work and those who contributed to the research.
★♥★!!
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