Close-up of a black line tattoo on an arm showing a teal awareness ribbon inside a circle with the words DEFY THE HAND and YOU'RE DEALT.

Awareness ribbon in a circular text badge

Lettering · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

The tattoo shows a teal awareness ribbon at the centre of a circular black badge. The words DEFY THE HAND sit along the top of the circle and YOU'RE DEALT along the bottom, separated by small dots. The outlines are bold and solid black, and the ribbon is filled with a single flat teal tone against the bare skin.

Lettering Forearm Awareness ribbon Text Ribbon

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The last train to Hollin Cross had left without Eli Varley, and he was glad of it, because it gave him an hour in the waiting room with the pack his father had left him. The clock above platform two was four minutes slow. Nobody had fixed it since the signal box closed.

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A woman in a porter's coat sat down opposite him with a flask and no ticket. She watched him shuffle one-handed, the way his father had taught him, bridging the cards until they sang. "You're not dealing for money," she said. "You're dealing for a bet you already lost."

He had staked the cottage on a hand of brag in the back room of the Railway Arms, the winter the mill shut, and lost it to a man who never once looked at his cards. Eli had sworn he would never sit at a table again, and he told her so. She poured tea into the flask lid and slid it across the bench.

"Then deal me in," she said. "Your dad's rule, wasn't it? Cut the deck, turn the top card, play what comes. Not what you wanted." Eli turned it over. It was the queen of hearts, bent at one corner from years in a pocket. He laughed, and the clock above platform two ticked on four minutes behind, and for once he did not check it.