Full leg sleeve tattoo in colour styled as film strip frames with cartoon characters, shown from the thigh to the calf in two photographs.

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Cartoon film strip leg sleeve

Thigh · Colour · Photo

A full leg sleeve shows cartoon characters inside rectangular film strip frames, including a rabbit, a cat, a bulldog and a desert scene. Bold black outlines define the film strip borders and the figures, with shading used for depth in the backgrounds. The palette is bright and mixed, with warm oranges, yellows, blues and reds, and the frames run the length of the leg in two photographs, one on a black chair and one standing.

Thigh Calf Cartoon Rabbit Cat Desert Leg sleeve Cartoon character

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Every reunion at Hollin Vale Grammar the old crowd argued about the raffle of 1987, when the prize tin of Swiss rolls vanished from the staffroom and nobody owned up. This year it was Edna Pickersgill who came through the door with a biscuit tin under her arm and said the answer was in the desert, and she set a reel of film on the hall piano beside the cold sausage rolls.

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The folk tale goes like this, the way Edna told it. Long ago the school film room was home to a grey-eared hare called Pip, who could run the length of a fence faster than any boy in the year. Under the projector slept Gaffer Stroud, a bulldog with a jaw like a letterbox, who never once woke for the bell. And out past the painted mesas lived Ambrose Tull, a small red-moustached man with a rifle he never fired, who wanted that tin more than he wanted breakfast. Each time he came near, Pip took a shortcut through the frame borders and left him chasing his own shadow.

The turn came in the fourth frame. Silas Mott, a sly black cat who sat on the window ledge and listened to everything, had buried the tin in the sand while the others were busy. The reel showed it plainly: a paw, a dusty lid, a grin tucked under a whisker.

They ran the film on the hall wall until the projector bulb hummed. Frame by frame the sun sank behind the mesa, and the last picture held on the tin, still shut, with a scrap of paper pinned to it that read, in capitals, ASK THE RABBIT. Nobody did. They ate the sausage rolls instead, and Edna left the reel on the piano for whoever came looking next.