Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a full moon with cratered detail, placed on the upper arm.

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Full moon tattoo on upper arm

Dotwork · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A full moon is tattooed on the outer upper arm, shown as a round, detailed disc with darker mottled patches for the maria and lighter craters. The shading is built from fine stippled dots, which give the surface a soft, realistic texture. The tattoo is centred in the frame against plain pale skin and dark clothing, with only black and grey ink used.

Dotwork Realism Upper arm Moon Full moon Celestial

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Margit had been up since two, and by half past three the flour in the air had settled into everything: her cuffs, the hairs on her wrists, the lenses of her spectacles when she took them off to rub her eyes. Through the back window the moon hung over the bins in the yard, very full and very white, the way it only looked when the frost was coming.

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The dough was Tuesday's starter, which Ruth had kept alive for thirty-one years in a crock with a cracked lid. Margit had inherited it along with the ovens and the bad radio. You did not speak sharply to a starter, Ruth had told her, and you did not rush it either. So she folded the dough in its slow quarters, listening to the mixer's complaint and the tick of the cooling racks, and waited for the window to go grey.

Her nephew had phoned the night before to say he was moving to Aberdeen for a job on the rigs. He had sounded like a boy again, asking whether she could still see the moon from the flat. She had told him it was the same moon wherever he went. He had laughed and said that was the sort of thing Ruth used to say, and Margit had not known what to answer.

At quarter to five she slid the first tins into the oven and set the timer. The moon was lower now, paler, sinking behind the chimney of the laundry across the lane. When she opened the back door the cold came in at her ankles, and she stood on the step with a loaf still warm in her hands, watching the last of the moon go, and thought the bread would be ready before the light was.