Colour tattoo of a Joker character with green hair and a red grin, framed as a playing card with J corners, on the forearm.

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Joker playing card on forearm

Forearm · Colour · Photo

A Joker character in a blue jacket and green bow tie is framed inside an outlined playing card with J letters in the corners. The linework is dark and fairly uniform, with flat areas of green, blue, orange, red and yellow ink and little visible shading. The card fills the centre of the frame against a dark background and a black sleeve.

Forearm Joker Playing card Bow tie Jacket Flower

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Every Saturday the widow who kept Gull's Rest on the Kentish front dealt the cards herself, because the lodgers had stopped trusting each other by the second week of August. Pennies went on the oilcloth, the gas hissed, and the sea came up the shingle loud enough to drown out any cheating, which was the point of the house.

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The jack came to the table on the third Saturday of that summer. Nobody had booked him. He had green hair the colour of pond weed, a blue coat with a rose pinned to the lapel, and a bow tie that looked painted on, which it was, the landlady decided, because she could see the brush marks at the collar. He sat down without asking, shuffled with long white fingers, and dealt himself a hand so quickly that the maiden aunt from Croydon wept.

He lost every hand for an hour. That was how the old tale goes, and folk who tell it plainly never say why. On the stroke of eleven he laid down a single card, the jack of hearts, and it was not the jack of hearts. It was a small painted face of the landlady's late husband, grinning, and beneath him the words: paid in full.

The next morning the rose was on the windowsill, still wet. The landlady swept the cards into the grate and did not deal again for thirty years.