Black line tattoo design of overlapping Gallifreyan-style circles above the words I will love you through all of space and time, with an IPA transcription beneath.

Gallifreyan circles with a love quote

Geometric · Black and grey · Flash

A wide horizontal design of interlocking circles with inner rings, arcs and dots, resembling Gallifreyan script, above the English sentence I WILL LOVE YOU THROUGH ALL OF SPACE AND TIME. A smaller line of IPA transcription sits beneath it, followed by a grey caption reading English (IPA). The clean black outlines are drawn on a white background with no shading or colour.

Geometric Circle Quote Text Love Space

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, the lot of you, and mind the peat smoke, it goes where it likes. Now. You want the tale of the stone-writer, the one who came down on the north skerry in a grey box that was bigger inside than out. Nobody on Ormsay believed Eilidh Brodie when she told it, but she had the stones to prove it, and the stones are still in the church porch if you doubt me.

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Every stone had circles cut into it, rings inside rings, with dots and little arcs sitting on the edges like gulls on a wire. The stranger would not say what they meant. He only tapped one and said, "Read it to me," and Eilidh, who had no schooling past the ferry, said she could not read a thing that was round. He laughed at that, the old tale says, laughed until he had to sit down on the shingle.

Then he taught her the sound of it, slow, the way you teach a bairn to say the sea. Ai. Wil. Lav. Ju. Thru. Al. Av. Spes. And the last word he made her say twice, because he wanted it said right: taim. Time. He said the circles were only the shape the words wore when they had nowhere else to go.

When the grey box lifted off over the Minch, the whole island watched the light climb until it was one more star among the others. Eilidh chiselled the English beneath the circles so that anyone passing could read it aloud, and the ferrymen still say it at the pier before they cast off. So say it now, the way he taught her, and mind you say the last word twice.