Fine line cartoon cat with closed happy eyes, red and grey shading, a script name and a red heart above it, tattooed on a forearm.

Cartoon cat with script name on forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A smiling cartoon cat with closed eyes, whiskers and a curled tail is drawn in clean black outline. Soft red and grey shading sits in patches on the body and tail, with a black script word and a red heart drawn above it. The design is shown close up on the forearm against plain skin, with the tattoo filling most of the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Gather in, gather in, and mind the generator cable, it bites. You want the tale of the cat on the Waltzer? Everybody wants the cat. Her name was Button, and she turned up at Hallam's Travelling Fair the winter the big wheel froze solid outside Nottingham and nobody could shift it.

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She was a grey tabby with a coat like an old pewter spoon, and she sat on the candyfloss van as if she'd bought it outright. Ada Pryce ran the ticket hut, and Ada had one rule: no animals on the rides. So Button rode them anyway, curled in the tail of the ghost train's last carriage, eyes shut, purring at painted skeletons who never once frightened her. The toffee apple boy leaned on her one afternoon and left a sticky red thumbprint on her flank, and she wore it like a medal for the rest of the season.

Now, the wheel. Ada climbed the scaffold on the third night with a torch and a bad temper, meaning to hoist that cat down by the scruff. But Button had settled herself on the brake lever, all four paws tucked under, and she would not be moved. Ada swore, the engineer swore, and the whole fairground stood in the frost holding its breath. Then the cat stretched, yawned, and gave the lever a single nudge with her chin. The wheel groaned, lurched, and began to turn, every cart lifting slow into the stars with the cat riding at the very top, eyes closed, smiling like she'd arranged the whole thing herself.

Ada painted a little red heart on the hut door the next morning, crooked, and she never said why. Hallam's still has that door. If you're quick you can see the heart from the ground, and if you're very lucky, a grey shape on the top carriage, grinning up at the moon.

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