Full arm sleeve of colourful cartoon Disney characters, including Pinocchio, Snow White and Ariel, shown in two side-by-side photographs of the upper arm and forearm.

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Disney character sleeve on an arm

Upper arm · Colour · Photo

Two photographs show a full arm sleeve covered in classic cartoon characters that appear to include Pinocchio, Snow White, Ariel, Aurora and Bambi, with Mickey and Minnie Mouse near the top. The lines are bold and clean with smooth colour fills and some soft shading on the figures. Dense, overlapping compositions fill the whole arm from shoulder to wrist, and the person's face and head are not shown.

Upper arm Forearm Mickey mouse Minnie mouse Sleeve Cartoon

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Hollis had been splicing the same reel since midnight, cutting out a scratch that ran through the middle of a sailor's dance, when the wooden boy climbed out of the frame and sat on the edge of the light box to complain about his nose.

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"It's only paint," Hollis said, not looking up. "It was always going to be paint."

The Picture House on Dock Street had shown the same six cartoons every autumn since before the war, and the figures had grown bored of their loops. A red-haired mermaid came up through the drain in the foyer to ask whether the tide was in. A sleepy princess yawned on the stairwell and lay down again on the landing, because nobody had ever given her a reason to wake. A small brown deer stood at the back of the booth, trembling at the rattle of the fan, and Hollis, who had grown up on a farm outside Otley, found he could not bring himself to tell it the fan was harmless.

By two o'clock the whole crowd had crowded into the booth: a mouse pair arguing about whose ears were rounder, a fair-haired girl brushing the dust off a frilled collar, the wooden boy still sulking. Hollis taped the reel back together with his thumbnail pressed flat over the join, and the figures slid back into their frames one by one, grumbling. The last to go was the deer, who stopped at the edge and looked back at him as if waiting to be thanked.

At dawn the first tram rattled past the window and the projector went dark. When Hollis threaded the film for the morning matinee, the wooden boy's nose was back in its proper place, though it was a good inch longer than it had been the night before.