Joker face with green hair on a thigh
Neo-trad · Thigh · Mixed · Photo
A large portrait of the Joker's face with a wide red grin, yellowed teeth and bloodied, bloodshot eyes, framed by green snake-like hair. The linework is bold and dark with cross-hatched shading on the skin and black fill behind the face. Green and red ink stand out against the greys and blacks, and the design fills the limb with a tight, centred composition.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Sit down, the lot of you, and mind the sawdust, because the next bit is the bit your mothers skip. Behind the coconut shy there was a tent with no name painted on it, only a grin, and inside it lived a man who had been laughing since the Tuesday before the Great Frost.
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He ran the cakewalk for Harrow and Vell's Travelling Marvels. Every night he told the same joke about the strongman's wife, and every night the crowd laughed back, because a laugh is catching the way a cold is. Nobody noticed the hair until the autumn, when his curls went green and began to coil like grass snakes in a gutter. Then they noticed the eyes, which had gone red at the rims from never once blinking at the sun.
A fortune teller from Boston had sold him that laugh years before, in a bottle with a cork. She told him a laugh should be paid for. He didn't believe her. So one night, when a boy tumbled off the big wheel and nobody screamed, only chuckled, he went down to the far field with a tin of lamp oil and a box of matches, meaning to burn the tent and the grin along with it.
But the snakes had got there first. In the morning the field was bare except for a dozen green-headed rushes swaying where the tent had stood, and every one of them was laughing, very quietly, if you put your ear close enough to the ground.
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