Black ink cartoon pandas sit either side of a shaded green awareness ribbon in a tattoo on the lower leg near the ankle.

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Two pandas and a green ribbon on the ankle

Ankle · Mixed · Photo

Two cartoon pandas sit facing away from each other in black outline with solid black patches, and a green awareness ribbon is placed between them. The linework is simple and bold with flat black fills on the pandas and a softer, shaded green ribbon, with a thin black shadow line beneath each panda. The design is centred on the inside of the lower leg, shot in daylight with a blurred background.

Ankle Panda Awareness ribbon Cartoon Shadow

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mabel Corrie had hung the green ribbon on the fence post at the edge of Hollin wood the spring the bridge washed out, so the carters would know which path still held. Nobody had asked her to. The pandas came down from the high bamboo that May, two of them, and sat on the flat stone beside the post as if they had been sent to guard it.

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They would not look at each other. Tobias the carter swore they had fallen out over a bamboo shoot, and the children made bets on which one would turn first. Each morning they sat back to back in the sun, black arms folded, their shadows laid out on the dry mud like two half-moons that never quite touched.

In August a storm brought the stream up over the lower path. Mabel went out at dusk with a lantern, expecting to find the ribbon torn and the stone empty. Instead the pandas were standing in the water to their knees, one facing upstream and one facing down, each watching the side the other could not see, passing a length of bamboo between them to test the depth.

She understood then why they never turned round. She stood on the bank with the lantern until the water dropped, and when the carters came in the morning the two shadows were lying on the stone again, close together, the ribbon fluttering between them like a flag nobody had needed to raise.