January 2026 in TessaHedron
This is the first of my (free) monthly posts recapping what I have shared on TessaHedron over the last calendar month. I’m hoping I can keep these posts succinct, though I refuse to be held responsible if my enthusiastic brain and my typing fingers get carried away at any point.
Due to illness and other mitigating circumstances, I only shared one TessaHedron post this month. I’m fine with this: I have declared February to be the new start of 2026 anyway, so I am starting afresh this week. Fortunately, my utter lack of any publicity for this newsletter combined with the worldwide deluge and overload of words that is the internet means that all my subscribers are people who have followed me here from other platforms and therefore have complimentary subscriptions. I therefore don’t feel like I am being unfair taking anybody’s money for no (or few) words written.
I started the first of my posts proper for TessaHedron on the 15th of January, in which I considered the concept of TessaHedron as a portal, as a bubbling pot of history and folklore, and in which I considered how to balance comparatively darker content with other, more positive writing.
“The more I wrote of TessaHedron, the more I realised I didn’t want to base the story in a historically accurate version of Edinburgh. If I did, I wouldn’t be able to have as much fun with characters who are inspired by individuals ranging from a number of different eras. There is so much history in Edinburgh, so much folklore, and I wanted everything, all at once. What I have been left with, what makes me most excited about writing TessaHedron (it seems strange saying “writing”, here; I realised recently I actually think of it more as playing), is a bubbling pot of all sorts of snippets of that history and folklore, borrowed and stolen, interpreted and misinterpreted.”
Paid and complimentary subscribers can catch up here: An Overview, and Managing Multitudes.
My next post for paid and complimentary subscribers will be this coming Thursday. My next post for free subscribers will be in a month’s time.
Until then,
Lydia.