Fine line Millennium Falcon tattoo in brown ink on the side of a person's ribs, with a white top lifted above blue jeans.

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Millennium Falcon tattoo on the ribs

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A detailed outline of the Millennium Falcon spaceship sits on the side of the ribcage, with its cockpit, mandibles and hull panels drawn in fine brown lines. Shading and cross-hatching give the ship some depth, and the design is centred on the torso against plain skin. The image is a close, warmly lit photograph with a white top lifted and blue jeans at the lower edge.

Fine line Ribs Spaceship Star wars

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Somewhere past the Azores the starboard winch seizes for the third time since Tilbury, and Halloran sends you down the ladder with a spanner and a sour look. The hold smells of wet cardboard and diesel. You crawl under the drum where the cables bite, working by a torch clamped between your teeth, and think about the old pilot's line from the first night out: she's ugly, boy, but she'll outrun anything with a grudge.

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By the second watch the winch turns, groaning like a dredger, and you come up grinning with grease to the elbows. The bridge crew have made a wager on whether the Osprey Rose will reach Valparaiso before the fuel runs thin. Halloran bets against her. Nobody bets on you, which suits you fine. You have spent eleven years on ships never built to be fast, and you know the trick is to make them seem faster than they are, one bolt at a time, while the captain is asleep.

In the galley the cook slides you a bowl of mutton stew and a rolled chart with a crude pencil ship drawn on the back. It has a cockpit like a bird's head, two hinged arms reaching forward, and hull panels fanned out in tidy rows. Nobody aboard has seen a ship like it, and the cook says his nephew drew it on a napkin years ago and swore it could dodge a storm front by dropping its belly.

At Valparaiso the agent counts out the bets in damp notes and nods at you. Halloran pays up without a word. You fold your winnings into the margin of that chart, next to the drawing, and tuck it under the bunk where the rain never gets. Some nights you still hear the winch turning over, steady as a heartbeat, and you think it is the ugliest, most stubborn thing you have ever kept alive.