My Sides

I posted this on my other blog @thewriterfangirl but I decided to create a separate blog for my sides. Here’s what I posted earlier:

Recently, I talked with someone about my own sides (inspired by Sanders Sides) and I decided to post some information about my sides. I have 9 sides that are somewhat inspired by the 9 muses in Greek Mythology. I’m going to give the basic explanation of them and I’ll go into more detail about each of them in separate posts.

For now here are the basics:

Creativity- Her name is Cleo. Cleo’s name and some of her personality was based on Clio, the muse of history.

Logic- Her name is Phoebe. Her name and some personality is based on Polyhymnia, the muse of divine hymns, created geometry and grammar.

Morality- I also like to refer to her as Hufflepuff, her real name is Ella. She’s kinda based on Erato, the muse of lyrical/love poetry.

Anxiety- Her name is Urselina, but I also like to call her Selina. She’s based on Urania, the muse of astronomy.

Pessimism- Her name is Melanie and while she and Anxiety act alike, they are two different sides. Melanie is based on Melpomene, the muse of tragedy.

Hope- I also refer to her as Faith, but her name is Toni. She’s based on Thalia, the muse of comedy.

Laziness- I call her laziness but she’s a little more than that. Her real name is Thea and she’s based on Terpsichore, the muse of dance.

Fangirl- One of her nicknames is Cas (which won’t make sense to some people), but her real name is Echo. She’s based on Euterpe, the muse of music.

Style- She’s my aesthete side. She and Cleo are similar. Her real name is Callista (or Callie), she’s based on Calliope, the muse of epic poetry.

Sanders Sides Discord

My new discord server already has some new people! We’re still very small and I’m just putting something out there again about it. This Sanders Sides discord just for fans to talk and hang out. We can discuss new episodes, ships, fics, and whatever else. If anyone wants to join I’ll leave the link.

We also have a music bot and a game bot. Anyone is welcome and if there are suggestions for the server I am more than happy to listen to those suggestions.

https://discord.gg/Sca9c8RWXM

Sanders Sides Discord

Hi! I’ve set up a Sanders Sides discord just for fans to talk and hang out. We can discuss new episodes, ships, fics, and whatever else. If anyone wants to join I’ll leave the link.

https://discord.gg/Sca9c8RWXM

Discord

I made a server for people who want to talk about mental health or just find people who are like them. I’ll put out the join link again: https://discord.gg/fuetje6En7.

Anyway, I’m also considering creating a Sanders Sides server. It could be to talk about anything relating to the series and introducing your own sides if you have any you want to talk about. I know I like talking about my sides. Would anyone be interested in joining if I made one?

Or maybe just a server to talk about different fandoms, not exclusively sanders sides. If anyone has suggestions/ideas let me know!

Urselina (Anxiety)

Okay so it’s Anxiety’s turn. Her color is red because she’s always the one to sound the red alarm. Anxiety likes to wear band shirts and sweatshirts along with her black ripped jeans. She is the only side that wears a bracelet because she likes to fidget with it and it helps her (and me) with Anxiety. Her bracelet has a moon on it because she likes the night and the stars.

Anxiety’s real name is Urselina but she prefers to go be Selina and that’s how she introduced herself to the other sides. It took a while for them to learn her full name. Her muse is Urania, the muse of Astronomy. Like I mentioned earlier Selina is more of a night owl and finds the stars calming which is why Urania is her muse.

Out of all the sides Selina probably likes and gets along with Logic the most because Logic knows how to help and calm her down. Logic is good at getting all her thoughts to calm down. She likes Ella too but sometimes all the brightness can get on her nerves so can Hope’s constant positivity. She and Pessimism also get along very well because they both have a dark sense of humor and self loathing. 

Selina is the part of me constantly overthinking and is of course the one with all my anxiety. She listens a lot to Pessimism and the two prepare for the worst. Anxiety is terrible at making decision and is usually the one to keep me from making any kind of decision. She keeps me up late at night but she also tries to shut up and know when to stop. Selina is all my anxiety so she’s constantly worrying the others don’t like her and thinks I hate her, which I don’t. She just worries a lot.

She doesn’t actually get a lot of nicknames aside from Selina, but Cleo has been known to call her “Jitters” and “Serial Chiller”.

Ella (Morality)

Today is Morality, her fashion sense and color scheme is Hufflepuff (black and yellow). She has the yellow blouse that she wears and sometimes she wears the shirt with the badger on it, she has also been known to steal hoodies from the other sides (mostly Anxiety). Morality is also the only side that regularly wears a skirt.

Morality’s muse is Euterpe and her real name is Erato. Erato is the muse of love poetry. Ella’s one of my happier sides who really does just want to love everyone and be friends which is why I thought she fit best with Erato.

Ella, along with Logic, helps me make decisions. Her decision making is more feeling based than logic based, she like to go based on my heart. Ella weighs the good and bad outcomes and how they will affect others as well as myself. She goes beyond the logic and facts and into the feelings which means that she and Logic can disagree. Of course Ella gets along well with most of the sides especially Hope and Fangirl. Ella has been known to get into arguments  with the other sides, surprisingly she and Hope argue more than would be expected. Ella has a more realistic outlook than Hope does and while Ella is more of an optimist, she’s not as much of one as Hope is. Their viewpoints can clash. The same goes for Ella and Pessimism. 

Ella is basically my conscience and helps me decide whether or not a decision is right, though sometimes she can overthink certain situations. She keeps me from being too impulsive but she also makes me overthink which can then set off Anxiety and Pessimism. They’re still trying to find a good balance. She has also been called the “mom” of the group because she tries to take care of the others. She knows how to help Anxiety and makes sure Logic takes a break every once in a while. Ella is empathetic and she wants to help everyone.

Her most popular nicknames among the sides is Hufflepuff and she’s proud of that nickname. Anxiety calls her Puffball sometimes and she likes it too. She has some other smaller nicknames but those are the two major ones.

Phoebe (Logic)

Today I’ll talk more about Logic, she wears a lot of blue and black. While the picture above pictures shorts, she will obviously were pants when it’s colder. She also has a leather jacket that she wears because it’s comfortable, the other sides are always a little surprised when she wears it. Logic wears a tie too because she’s serious. All of my sides wear glasses (I have a small phobia of contact lenses), but Logic likes the glasses more than the other sides.

Logic’s real name is Phoebe and her muse is Polyhymnia. Polyhymnia is the muse of divine hymns, she was said to have created geometry, grammar, and meditation. She is often depicted as serious and pensive. Polyhymnia fit how I’ve always pictured my Logic so that’s why chose her as Phoebe’s muse.

Phoebe makes up my decision making (when I’m not just impulsive) as well as my organization, planning skills, and she’s the part of me that like to learn. Phoebe is really my Ravenclaw side (I’m a Hufflepuff but I have Ravenclaw tendencies). She loves reading and does the research that inspires and helps Creativity (Cleo), she and Creativity work together on my stories and projects. Phoebe also keep Cleo on track and makes sure that I have time for both homework and my non-school related projects. She loves to learn and is especially good with math. Logic is often the one to calm Anxiety (Urselina) and Pessimism (Melanie) down, she keeps them from being too negative. She’s also the only one that keeps Laziness (Thea) from laying around all day and doing nothing. Phoebe is easily frustrated by me and the other sides and has had small arguments with all of the sides at least once. She tends to argue with Anxiety the most, but they keep it mostly civil. Phoebe and Creativity get along well because they work together the most. She doesn’t really seem to have one side that’s she’s closer with, Phoebe mostly keeps to herself when she can.

The other sides like to call her ‘nerd’ or ‘bookworm’, neither bother her. Anxiety calls her Einstein a lot (the other sides use the nickname too, but not as much as Anxiety) and Morality was the first to call her ‘Ravenclaw’. Phoebe reluctantly admits to almost liking the nicknames. There’s definitely more I could say about her, but that’s it for not. Tomorrow I’ll talk more about Morality.

Cleo (Creativity)

So I’m not sure how long this will take but I’m going to introduce each of my sides in more detail, all in separate posts. Today I’m starting with my Creativity. The picture above is how I see her fashion sense, it’s similar to the regular outfit she wears.

My Creativity is named Cleo (I might go into my whole naming process later). Her muse is Clio (yes the spelling is very similar). Clio is the muse of history and I chose her for my Creativity because I love history and sometimes I base stories and characters off of historical ones. I draw a lot of inspiration from history or just things that I have seen and past experiences, so I thought she fit Creativity the best.

Cleo is the part of me that loves to write and come up with story ideas, she’s always got a new thought (sometimes good, sometimes bad). The “bad” thoughts are what I label my intrusive thoughts. Cleo is also distracted a lot because she’s usually in her own world thinking up new ideas and thoughts. This distractedness often makes up my impulse control (or lack of it). She holds basically all of my ideas for stories, poems, videos, and other projects that I work on and she remembers all of them (or makes me write them down). Cleo and Style (Callie) get along very well, they’re basically best friends (but they do have artistic disagreements). Cleo and Fangirl (Echo) also get along pretty well. The only side Cleo really clashes with a lot is Laziness (Thea), those two are always disagreeing and she gets very annoyed when Laziness wins (they are tied in their fights as of right now).

The other sides like to nickname each other so they usually give Cleo nicknames based on famous authors, poets, painters, and other artists. Laziness has also called her ‘Paint Chip’ before and that nickname seemed to stick with her. That’s basically everything you need to know about Cleo, the next side I’ll talk more about is Logic.

This is my color wheel for my sides. It just shows them, their real names, and the color I associate them with.