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WynterGreene, Beltane 2003

Creator Commentary

Well this is it, here she begins. Both the strip, her characters, the name, the site, EVERYTHING came out of no-where. I was amazed and shocked, but definitely excited. I had my fear, of course, that it wouldn’t last. I do have a tendency to start something nifty and never finish it. But this really picked up, everyone loved it, so I kept going on it. Definitely something I enjoy doing as much as I do hearing people laugh about it to this day!

As for “where did she begin?”, well of that I am not completely sure. I do know it’s seed was planted on my Spring Break of 2002. I was with my boyfriend (now ex boyfriend) in California. There were a number of events on that trip that could have inspired such a spontaneous creation. Shall I list some? Sure, why not. Perhaps it was because we were on the biggest plane ever, and it nearly fell into “the bay”. Perhaps it was my ER visit from hell (6 hours, all because I had strep). Perhaps it was one of the most beautiful city parks ever, complete with authentic Japanese Tea Garden. Perhaps it was the scariest new-age broads, at the dumpiest hole in the wall chinese restaurant, talking about “vibrating at the level of Christ”. Perhaps it was all of those, perhaps none. I like to believe, that like primal chaotic soup, they all played a role in her generation. Not by perhaps creating the strip directly, but by summoning the Muse that sat on my head until the strip was designed and birthed by being posted to the net on March 7th, 2002. Yet, regardless of how it came about during that Spring Break, Oh My Gods! was indeed born. A frantic outcry against all that was simple, beautiful, and sane. Or something like that.
— Shivian