Traditional style colour tattoo of a weathered wooden outhouse under an orange sun, with a banner reading IT NEVER ENDS.

Outhouse and It Never Ends banner

Traditional · Mixed · Photo

The tattoo shows a weathered wooden outhouse with a crescent-shaped orange sun behind it, a pipe on the roof, and purple swirling clouds. A green and white banner across the lower half reads IT NEVER ENDS, with bold black outlines and grey shading on the wood planks. Colour is used for the sun, banner and clouds against the dark brown and grey tones of the structure.

Traditional Sun Cloud Banner Lettering Wood

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

In the kingdom of Lesser Wendmere, the wooden privy at the top of Hob's hill was the oldest thing anyone could name. Its planks had gone the colour of wet bark, and every morning the sun came up behind it like a penny someone had forgotten to take back. Hob's grandmother had built it, and the pipe on the roof had coughed grey smoke for longer than anyone in the village could remember.

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The trouble began when the Steward of the Exchequer came up the lane with a surveyor and a measuring chain. He wanted the hill for a palace of glass. "What is it you do up here?" he asked. Hob said he kept the place. The Steward laughed until he saw the purple clouds gathering at the edges of the sky, and then he said, "Then keep it somewhere else."

Hob agreed to move it. He and his two sons dragged the shed on rollers down to the river meadow, and that night the clouds came down to sit on its shingles like cats. In the morning the shed stood back on the hill, its door hanging open, the banner stretched tight across its belly. The surveyor's chain had rusted to a single link. Hob's sons swore they had carried the thing all the way to the meadow, and they had, and they had also carried it back.

The Steward gave up after three winters, then his heirs did, and the glass palace was never built. Some say the kingdom went the same way, a little at a time, one sunrise after another, but Hob's people only shrug at that. Strangers still ask how long the work will take, and they point at the banner, because in all those years it has never once been a lie.