hey dawg, love the poll, just wondering if minecraft was left off out of a deep loathing of the cube game or if you just didn't think it'd be people's first exposure?
I left this in the notes and in at least one reblog but uhhhhhh I Genuinely Didn't Know lapis lazuli was in Minecraft because I've never played it.
I've also never seen a single episode of Steven Universe lol.
I made the poll because I'm rereading the Deltora Quest series (it still slaps fyi) and I genuinely had not seen or heard of the lapis lazuli gemstone OUTSIDE of the series besides the one time I heard a Steven Universe fan say the word, which is the only reason I knew it was in Steven Universe. (That's also why the note about pronunciation is in there; I had no idea how it was pronounced because I'd only seen it written down and was surprised when the person said it because it was NOT how I was saying it in my head.)
Had I known that it appeared in Minecraft as well I CERTAINLY would have made it an option. This is also why I didn't include "real life" options because I've not come across it out in the world even though I did KNOW it was a real gem, I just assumed it was a lesser known/unpopular one.
For the record, I have made a sequel poll that includes Minecraft and other options because there are a LARGE number of people in the notes who learned about lapis lazuli through special interests/hyperfixations and/or family members for whom it was a favorite gem. In that poll Minecraft is holding steady at about 37% and "rocks are cool" is a solid second place at 17% (well above Steven Universe!) so it's an interesting experiment.
The original poll
The sequel poll
