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Black widow spider on a shoulder
Realism · Shoulder · Mixed · Photo
A black widow spider with a glossy black body and red spots on its abdomen sits on the upper shoulder. Its long legs are drawn in dark linework with soft shading that gives them depth and a slight three-dimensional look. The spider fills the centre of the frame against plain pale skin, with a black strap across the top right and a pale grey background at the left.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Mind the ladder, love, and don't stand under the Bramley till I've finished. Right. You'll want to hear about the black one that came off the Kentish lorry in the hop-sack, the summer the wasps went mad for the Discovery windfalls. Nobody on this farm had seen the like. Glossy as a boot in the rain, and on her belly four red spots, as if someone had dropped sealing wax on her and thought better of it.
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Young Reuben Tapp swore he'd have her in a jam jar by Michaelmas. He set a tin of pilchards in the middle of the orchard and sat with a torch from dusk till the owls started. Nothing came but moths and his own grumbling. Then one morning there was a loose thread of silk across the gate hinge, no thicker than a hair, and nothing else. She didn't spin a web for her dinner, see. She walked her dinner down and took it at the throat.
Reuben came in white as flour, and I said, you can keep your jar. She's not in the business of trapping. She goes where she likes, and so does the wind, and so do I at my age. He never did catch her. Some say she's still up in the Cox's tree by the wall, waiting for a boy with a jam jar to get careless.
Go on, then, pick the last Blenheim off the top bough. Mind your hand on the red ones. They're the ones she's been sitting on.
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