Well, I followed a tutorial that I found which was kind of close, made some minor adjustments because he was using a different esp32 board, and I was able to get the graphics test to show up and run fine. Although appears to be super fast. Mission successful!
https://www.instructables.com/Interfacing-ST7789-320x240-TFT-Screen-With-an-ESP3/
This library: https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/libraries/adafruit-st7735-and-st7789-library/
Pinout:
ST7789 > ESP32-C3 Super Mini
GND > GND
VCC > 3V3
SCL > GPIO4
SDA > MOSI/GPIO6
RST > TX/GPIO21 (has to be specified in code)
DC > SCL/GPIO9 (has to be specified in code)
CS > SDA/GPIO8 (has to be specified in code)
BL > 3V3