Historically expensive IIRC
Also it’s a “weird” color, it is rarely seen in nature, it’s on a weird spot in the visible light spectrum
So those two things make it easier to just slap purple on something to make it seem rich(powerful, evil) and exotic(unfamiliar, mysterious)
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In Europe, it also became associated with Emperors and Empire due to the fact that only Roman emperors were allowed to wear purple back in the day
The tradition carried into the medieval period, with Byzantine heirs being referred to as “born in the purple” if they were born while their father was emperor, owing partially to the fact that empresses gave birth in a room entirely colored Tyrian purple (the most expensive kind)
As empire and feudalism gave way to nation-states and less autocratic governance, purple remained associated with autocratic Imperial styles of government (and was still expensive) so ended up being rarely used (except briefly by the Spanish) as flag or national colors as European states trended towards parliamentary or oligarchical rule rather than absolutism (plus the Holy Roman Empire died and empire began to mean different things to people)
So it became associated with the wealthy back in the Roman Republic, associated with empire during the Empires, and eventually fell out of favor among official state uses as governance began to become less autocratic, leaving it as the color of wealth and empire (with both good and bad connotations depending on context)
The internet is Very divided on why purple is poisonous, but generally seems to agree that its a specifically Japanese thing while green being poison is much more common in Europe/US and there are like 50 different pet theories why
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Well, guess purple is my favorite color now
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i’m looking at handcannons as a weapon for a character in a project of mine and i’m kind of in love with this thing. head…
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Me building a computer: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me upgrading a computer: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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Petting a cute cat while I ignore a phone call from my parents about planning holiday travel. New queer milestone I suppose
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I love it so much.
Watching our team lose isn’t great, but sometimes you can find solace in knowing that they played their hearts out and were just beaten. And sometimes you end up in the absolutely infuriating position where you clearly outplayed your opponent and by all metrics should have won except the one that actually matters (goals). Anyway guess how we washed out of the playoffs
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Well, the holiday season has begun in earnest. Fulfillment (the department I work in) is getting slammed constantly, the sales floor is jam packed (especially near the grocery side entrance and by toys and seasonal, which are right next to each other). and we’re still training new people. Gonna be a fun time, I’m sure
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sunday restlessness is here in force.
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at a preschool i pass by omw to work a kid had thrown a hula hoop over the fence onto the path and i just didnt see it at all because i was so focused on watching a crossing ahead and i ran over it with my 27kg monster ebike and i just heard a carer go “a-” as i did… im so sorry i ruined that kids day im going to hell…
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lol today’s a bank holiday in Poland
I noticed upon arriving at the empty office lmao
thankfully it’s just ~10m on bike so no loss but I still felt dumb 
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Thanks, Granblue wiki
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My job doesn’t give veterans day off, dumbass company
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Its really fun to learn who’s essential and who can be spared over and over
Same hat, plus learned we’re still working on christmas and new years 
Edit: i will say we do still at least get holiday pay on top of our normal pay for those days, and have half days at least on NYE and Xmas day, but like, cmon
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bday in 10 days… wadda hell.
god i am so sorry, our workplace used to be insane about not giving us holidays off (we literally used to ONLY get christmas off) but they’ve gotten better since covid, i hope your shifts go by quickly and easily next month :(
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Mine technically does but only in the sense of “it’s a floating holiday” so yeah my ass is definitely working today.
we’ve got about 5 weeks left in the semester and i might be outta steam 
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I don’t seem to be able to get through a full day at my Mon/Tues job any more without getting into disagreements with my coworkers. really not helping with my steadily increasing urge to just quit. @_@
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