Presents, Writing, Future

Merry Christmas, world!

This is different, huh? Celebrating on Sunday? I have to admit I was a little unenthusiastic about that fact before, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit now. And it certainly makes it easier to remember what Christmas is really about when on a Sunday.

Several people came to hang out at our house yesterday- the mom-and-daughter-duo family friends, my aunt and her friend, and my sister's boyfriend (though she and him went to his house for a while, too). I honestly feel like I wasn't on my bestest behavior? I wasn't feeling particularly social, so I spent part of the time reading TAU on my laptop, and I barely talked. I'm really, really hoping no one got offended. I mean, all these people already know that I'm like that, but I usually try to pay attention to the conversation anyway, and at a few points I'd given up.

We later did the gift exchange... sort of. Some of the presents were given earlier, and others weren't actually wrapped, so it wasn't all that formal. (My mom gave me a chocolate orange to munch on, and my dad gave me a Louise Belcher rabbit ear hat! Much like the one she's almost always wearing in Bob's Burgers! I'm wearing it right now, actually.) The ones that were wrapped, though, we opened just after midnight. So the presents me and my sis got for our parents were opened (though my mom already knew about hers- the first half was a makeup palette), one of the gifts my sis got for her boyfriend was opened, and my sis opened the one I got for her. (Just like I was hoping for, she loved what I got her- two packs of Hot Fudge Sundae Poptarts. So glad she liked it!)

Oh, and a few days ago, my sis gave me and her boyfriend bags of chips and some Reese's chocolates. That was much appreciated.

(I'm unsure if I've mentioned a Totem City CD yet? I feel like I should've, but I might've not gotten around to it... Anyway, my sis got a copy for herself and one for me a few weeks ago, and both of us love the CDs! She told me it was one of my unofficial Christmas presents. Nick Wilde, the little fox stuffed animal from a few months ago, was my official gift.)

The second half of my mom's present was me and my sis cooking lunch for her. So, after church (which was a special Sacrament Meeting that combined all three wards, because with so many people gone during the holidays, it would've been dumb to still have separate meetings), we went to work to make foodstuff. It ended up being rice with a sunny-side up egg and these thingies that are similar to potstickers, topped with tempura sauce and sesame oil. We ate while watching this year's Christmas devotional (though my parents were starting to feel too sleepy to pay attention the whole way through, so we're watching the last part later today). We also got some ponche cooking then, so it was ready to serve by the time I started this paragraph. It came out quite good. There are very few hot drinks that I can stand (for a while, at least), and ponche is one of them.

I don't think there's really anything else to say about Christmas Eve and Christmas, so I guess I'll go to what I did earlier in the week.

As usual, I wore Christmas-themed outfits to school, though I didn't make them as over-the-top as I kinda wish I did. We have less stuff to work with, and I didn't give myself as much time to prepare as I have in past years.

I finished up the last chapter of my Physics textbook, and read a large portion of the English textbook, so I gave them back when I received my final English grade. It looks like I had a 98 in both classes, which is pretty nice!

Beyond that, I was trying to avoid reading too much, in an effort to get more actual writing done. Though I hadn't done anything WFAM, I did get a bit more in for the demon story, I did some actual TAU writing (one is a one-shot that I'm trying to finish, and the other is a drabble that actually started as a Free Write assignment because I just couldn't think of anything else to do for it. I did come up with something that looked a lot less like a fanfic- thus, something I could actually turn in- the day after, thank goodness), and I got a little bit of the Creative Writing assignments done. As seen in the previous sentence, though, I struggled with that last part. I wrote something for that one assignment 3 times, and the third was the only attempt that I turned in. I took a really long time to come up with something for the assignment after that, too, but I've got most of it done now.

I'm a little nervous about that TAU oneshot. I ended up wanting to write about the day right after the Transcendence, which is the point where the AU deviates from canon. Basically, right up at the beginning of the AU timeline. It doesn't feel very original, compared to tons of other works there, but I suppose it's not that bad an idea, considering people mention a lot of what sorts of things happened then, but hadn't really gotten around to actually writing it all out in story form. I like a lot of what I have down, but I'm not sure if it all actually fits close enough to the AU's canon (heh, that seems like a bit of a oxymoron there) to be... well, considered canon. It's also really difficult to know whether I'm portraying all the characters correctly, both because I haven't tried to write Gravity Falls before and they're not actually acting in-character in this one-shot. I mean, I'm writing what happened right after something crazy huge and traumatic, so no one's acting quite like themselves. I guess I can really only do my best and hope that the mods for TAU like it and/or give suggestions as to how to improve my characterization.

Yep, I'm planning to send these to them. I still haven't sent the headcanon thing from earlier, as I'm kinda planning to ask permission to send all these things as a group. I've only done this once before, and it wasn't so much material, so wish me luck!

On Tuesday, my seminary class had a Christmas party, which was mostly occupied with exchanging the White Elephant gifts. We started with bingo- once you got a bingo, you got up and picked one of the presents, which were still wrapped- and then, once we unwrapped all of them, choosing whether to keep our present or stealing someone else's. I'd brought a chocolate orange, which got stolen quite a bit, and I ended up stealing a small jar of tiny Halloween erasers. All of them are jack-o-lanterns, but I'm okay with that. It was a really fun day!

The day after, the multicultural club put on another event, but it definitely wasn't as well-planned as the previous one was, when my sister was the one in charge. It was still fun, though, since I got to talk quite a bit with this one kid in my seminary class- I suppose I'll call him Nick. One of the best things to come out of that was that we discovered that we both wanted the same career! He also wanted to research genetics! (And he also agreed on the point of not really wanting to be a boss, but instead getting his hands dirty with the actual lab work.) Since then, I've been thinking about how cool it'd be if we end up getting into the same research team when we're older- even if that means one of us gets the job, and then recommends the other to be hired too.

The ward Christmas party happened on Thursday. The Nativity scene was one of the most embarrassing things I've ever endured. Dude. (I felt myself tear up as I got off the stage and started getting ready for the dance after, because DUDE.) At least the Hawaiian dance went a lot more according to plan, and I could feel myself relax and have fun as we danced, much unlike how I felt a few minutes prior. (I'm still quite upset about the Nativity, though. I am desperately hoping I will never have to deal with something related to that ever again.)

I can't even remember at this point which day of the week it was, but me and my parents watched the live-action version of The Jungle Book on Netflix, which I loved. It made me realize I didn't really remember the cartoon- like, at all- but I really enjoyed watching anyways.

I can't really think of anything else that's at least noteworthy besides that my sister got an offer- actually, technically two- from her old boss (my current principal) that's a really good opportunity for her. It'd kinda be like acting as a liaison between him and a school he's planning on opening outside the country. This is the sort of thing she actually wants as a career, so she's super stoked, and we're all so happy for her! Of course, this messes up the whole plan she had set up for next year, but this is a lot better for her than some of those other things she originally intended to do, so she's perfectly fine with that! As long as we can figure out how she can work on college classes while she's doing this job, since she had planned on going back to school next fall, everything will be perfect. (Of course, she'll have to switch to online classes instead of going to actual classrooms.)

That, plus the fact that I'll be going to college myself, makes me kinda anxious about next year, but I'm also feeling pretty hopeful. I mean, my sis and I found or received these awesome opportunities! And, as my dad loves to say, nothing is a coincidence. So, we gotta take advantage of these opportunities, because they're real and they're there specifically for us, to help us get ready for our future careers (or, in my sister's case, maybe even officially start our careers) and happiness.

I'm gonna do my best to look at 2017 as a year of opportunity and personal growth. I have a feeling there's gonna be a whole lot of change next year, and it'll hopefully all be change for the better.

Again, Merry Christmas! Enjoy the rest of your day!

20 Years! Textbooks and Writing/Drawing!

Hello world!

So... I was kinda sick-y yesterday and today? Thank goodness that it resolved itself relatively quickly. It still sucked, though.

I feel a little bad that I had to miss church because of it, but it was nice to (try to) sleep and chill for the day. I'm also quite happy that it was me that got sick and not my sister, since it was her birthday and all. (She's been unlucky enough in the past to be sick and/or in pain on holidays and family vacations, so she deserves the break.)

Man, she's 20 now! That's so weird! I feel like it was just yesterday that I was like "She's 16 now?! WEIRD!" or "13?!" But, well, that tends to happen when you know someone for as long as I have.

We basically celebrated throughout the week preceding today- she went out with her boyfriend (Plot-twist: he's not Mexican!), her friends came over to watch movies, we went to the family-fave African restaurant (per her request), and maybe something else? I also gave her presents a little early, in the form of "coupon" thingies; they were a free manicure thingie (as in, I'm gonna try my best to paint her nails) and a chance for her to put makeup on my face for anytime we're going to some event and/or public place. She can do really dramatic makeup, or gross makeup, or whatever the heck she wants, for that second "coupon". I'm both scared yet mildly curious to see when she plans to use that one.

School's been... kinda nice. I let myself get distracted by TAU (AKA Transcendence AU, mentioned in the last two posts) a little too much in the first half, but I still got much more studying done than necessary for my Physics final, which I got 100% on!

After that, I started with reading the last two chapters of the textbook (which I haven't finished doing), which completely boggled the mind of one of the tutors at my school. ("Even I don't do that!" he proclaimed- and he's big on science and engineering.) On Friday, I also spent most of my free time at school reading some of the essays in my English textbook. Not because I love essays, for some reason, but because these were usually cut out of books and articles with lots of interesting information and perspectives on things.

I've decided that I'm definitely buying a copy of my current Physics textbook in the future. I mean, I don't wanna lug around any more books than necessary now, considering I'm highly likely to move into a dorm and stuff next year... but once I feel like I've got everything figured out regarding how much stuff I'll have with me for the next few years of my life, I'll get the book on KSL or something. Maybe, by then, the book will be cheaper because it'll be an older edition of the textbook, and it'll be cheaper then anyways.

I had intended to do a lot of the Creative Writing class, but... I guess I got writer's block for the next assignments I was supposed to do. I believe I only managed to turn in one assignment throughout the week. Not cool. (On the upside, my English teacher told me on Friday that she absolutely loved some of the stuff I submitted for that class. That was really nice to hear.)

Instead, I ended up doing stuff for my own stories. I edited what I had so far in the demon story and figured out a few of the details I'd been unsure about before. I only got an extra paragraph further from where I'd left off, but I know the story looks better than it did before.

As for WFAM, I took some time from the second half of the week to write down a few ideas I'd jotted down in my phone forever ago and try to draw a few of the characters. (I mean, seriously? I'd only bothered trying to draw Guinn, Cami, and Ben so far, when there's plenty of other characters that need to be worked out? Get it together, Me.) I intended to draw Rory (the version that will appear in WFAM), Benji (the baddest guy of them all!), and Heart (the lady that is Cami's boss). The last one just refused to be drawn, but I got something decent for the other two.

I'm not as happy with Rory's drawing as I was hoping for. My hand didn't want to show her like how I imagined (and she looks a little disproportional?). I guess it was less necessary to draw her, since I knew pretty well already how I want her to look, but whatever.

I think it's kinda funny, now, how I'd made a redhead who looks relatively harmless, but can definitely kick your butt and enjoy doing so, when I've now found TAU, and a bunch of the main characters in it are much like that, too. Rory's a little more into showing her tough side with her clothes and attitude, though, while the TAU gingers have more of just an aura that comes out of them when they have reason to release it. (Also, they're all curly-haired, while Rory isn't.)

Anyways~ her typical sort of ensemble is a navy blue shirt- likely long-sleeve- with jeggings, paired with steel-toed leather boots and a pair of leather gloves that look much like Alphonse's, for they have small steel plates on them to make punches really hurt. When she's on-the-job, I guess I can say, she also wears a bullet-proof vest, which I'd attempted to draw. (...It failed a little.) Even if no one's fighting with a gun, wherever she may be, I assume such a vest would be very useful anyways.

Benji's results are a little more surprising.

(I just took these pictures from when I sent them to Carter, thus why I tried a little less to make the picture nice.)

I knew his hair was brown, but I hadn't really considered what sort of haircut he'd have. I ended up just thinking, "Well, hey, he'd probably like having tall hair," so I tried to draw that one haircut guys used to do a lot where the sides and back are shaved and the top is very voluminous, even though I never really liked that cut. It was harder to draw than I expected... and I think something mildly different is in order for Benji.

His face came out so creepy, when I hadn't even tried all that much! Frankly, I'm quite proud of myself! Though I guess I hadn't thought of making his creepiness so overt, he certainly looks like he holds the sort of personality I intended.

One of the first traits I had made for him was that, for some reason, he'd wear monochromatic outfits every day. (This is inspired by this one guy in my old middle school that did this very thing for the entire school year. White with white, blue with blue, even yellow with yellow!) He'd likely wear blue most often, but it'd depend on his mood and what he planned to do for the day, so there'd also be a fair share of red, black, brown, and maybe white and purple? A detail I'd thought of later was that he'd probably also like wearing suspenders daily. (I considered giving him a bow-tie, too, but dismissed it when I remembered that bow-ties are used a lot now. ...Well, I guess suspenders, too, but they're most commonly used with ties and bow-ties, not just by themselves. I can think of only one exception right now, which is Dez in Austin & Ally, but even then, he always had his suspenders off his shoulders. (Honestly, he's one of the reasons why I got into suspenders a few years ago. I seriously need to get back into them again.)

I'm unsure about footwear, but I feel like it's a little more likely to be something casual, like Converse, than a loafer. Is it odd to find 30-something-year-olds that still wear Converse, though? I don't know very many 30-somethings. I probably should, in order to make the older characters, like Benji, act realistically for their age.

Unfortunately, when I'd been intensely reading TAU and writing in my little notebook for WFAM, I missed that everyone had gone to an assembly... and my mentor teacher had sung praises about how I was cool and got a 34 on the ACT at that assembly, but didn't know I wasn't there until it was too late. I feel kinda guilty about it. Even worse, I don't have much of an excuse as to why I wasn't there!

There's not much left to say... Well, I finally learned just what the lyrics are to "No Surprises" by Radiohead, watched Elf at school on Wednesday [and Santa Claws today with my sister (though she fell asleep a third of the way through), which just about as cringe-worthy as we expected], and a kid at school showed me that he had a crazy cool, fancy calculator... and I ended up fiddling with it a lot.

It had buttons for every letter of the alphabet, which I used to type down several messages and jokes. The first was "it has a little mouse oh mylanta" (hadn't found punctuation and caps lock yet) because it had a touchpad that showed a mouse on the screen! And my sister and I have been watching Fuller House lately!

The second message on this picture was specifically for my sister, cuz I wanted to send this to her for her amusement. Apparently, she indeed found it quite funny.

I put down a few other things, like the first few lines of "Baby Got Back", before I gave the calculator back (after trying the third time before the owner and I found some other cool feature on the calculator and I played with it all over again) and ran away. The temptation is strong in this one.

Okay, that's pretty much everything, I think! I wonder if I'll actually get around to doing everything I was hoping to do this next week?

WAIT! Dude, I can't believe I almost sent this without putting in that the family Christmas party was yesterday! Unlike most previous parties, which were linners hosted at my grandma and grandpa's house, they apparently tried mixing it up and did breakfast at Golden Corral. (I saw Beka's mom there, by coincidence.) Though I didn't really talk much to the more distant relatives, I had fun with Cam and Ash and their parents. Even though I'd already been feeling mildly nauseous when we were there, I managed to eat most of the food that I put on my plate (even though I took longer to eat that food, in the process), so I was mildly proud of myself. And yeah, it was fun despite that.

Super-Duper Long Winter Break? THE DOOR!!!

Hello world!

It was rather odd last Sunday... I just didn't feel like writing my next entry here. I instead read some of my old stories and took a short nap. Oh, and after Family Home Evening (we've always done them on Sunday rather than Monday), we were looking at what of our children's books (mostly heavy collection books) we wanted to keep or donate/give away. My family's been doing a bit of donating and stuff this month, so.

It's not that bad that I skipped a week, though, cuz not much has actually been going on lately.

(I know! Crazy, right?)

In school, I'd basically just been finishing up my English paper and project (which we finally got to turn in on Thursday and Friday). The Transcendence AU mentioned earlier certainly didn't help me with concentrating on my work, but I managed to pull through regardless.

Something very cool happened in school, actually! I believe I'd mentioned that I still had just a few assignments left for Financial Lit? Well~ I decided to start on those on Thursday. I had the name of the three assignments I still needed to do written down, so I just looked for the names of those in my class.

However, I'd been put into this year's Financial Lit class just a few weeks ago, which turned out to be quite a bit different from the class that I'd been working on last year. Though I managed to find 2 assignments with the same names as the ones I needed to do, I wasn't entirely sure they'd actually be the same, and that third one has just disappeared entirely. That... made me quite nervous.

So, I went over to ask the teacher what I should do. He looked me up in the school records, and saw that I'd had almost everything for that class done, plus had a really good grade, so he said, "Oh, you're basically done! I'll just give you the credit." And he did.

So, just like that, I finished Financial Lit, which I hadn't worked on since last summer! I guess it's not a big deal, considering I had technically done a lot of work for it already, but it was a pleasant surprise that I wouldn't have to fret over it any longer.

I still have my Physics final to study a little more for (though my professor said he was confident that I could get 100% without trying), and besides that I only have Creative Writing, which I don't even need the credit for!

Since my PE and FinLit credits are in, and my final grades for English will soon come, I've basically graduated high school! Weirdness!!!

But, well, that doesn't mean that I'm actually leaving it. Even though I'm scared about it, I'm going to try my hand at 3 concurrent classes next semester, just like the real college kids. You haven't gotten rid of me yet, High School and Community College. (...I'm referring to both as people, hence the capitalization.)

As of now, it looks like I'll be taking College Algebra (MATH 1050), English 2010 (with the same professor, which I'm hoping was the right choice), and Intro to Chemistry. According to the U's website, taking these courses will actually go towards my generals.

I wanted to take chemistry anyways, since it was one of my preferred science classes in high school, and I figured it'd just be a lot smarter to get English done and over with now. (It can be a rather stressful class, and I'd rather not torture Future Me with having to deal with it among the other difficult classes she'll be dealing with in the near future. Plus, the professor had pointed out that it's much easier to do 2010 right after 1010 rather than waiting a year or whatever. I'm already a little sick of English, but I bet Future Me would be even more sick of it.)

As for the math class... I mean, I could technically do 1060, but that's trig, and I'm not big on trig. Like, at all. It's incredibly difficult for trig stuff to stick. Dude, I even forgot SOHCAHTOA for a while. Isaiah's in it, and just from the glance I've done to his homework, I know I'd hate myself for going into that class.

I also know that a lot of the stuff in 1050 I'll have already done, or at least be somewhat familiar with. I suppose that could mean that I'm just taking the "easy" class, or just a review. I dunno, maybe I actually will. But, frankly, that's going to make my first venture into a full college-kid schedule so much easier, if at least one of my classes is relatively easy compared to the others. I want that stuff to stick, anyway, cuz I know I'll need to have a good math base for the sort of stuff they'll make me do for choosing a science degree.

I can already tell I've been slipping with the math stuff, just for not taking an actual math class this semester. I've been doing pretty dang bad in the math club meetings in comparison to the others there who assisted the math banquet a few weeks ago. I need to practice math more, especially the stuff I'm more familiar with.

So... yeah. I think that's what I'm gonna be doing. I was hoping for Humanities rather than English, but it's just gonna make more sense to leave Humanities for later. (I don't even know if the Humanities class would've counted for credit at the U anyways.)

I guess back to what I've been doing in school. So, since all I have to worry about for this semester is my Physics exam, I have been having a little more time to chill and read whatever and write during school hours. I read a bit of my old works from my flash drive and, of course, read more Transcendence AU stuff. (Dude, I still had stuff to read open on Chrome on my phone for 2 weeks. I finally finished my insane TAU binge yesterday. 2 weeks. I thought it was pretty bad the last time I got sucked into Gravity Falls AUs earlier this year... And once I catch up on the updates to fics on FFN- thank goodness that there weren't many updates on my usual reads lately- it's back to TAU. There's still so much that I haven't read there yet. Why did I do this to myself?)

I also got two Free Write assignments done for the Creative Writing class, when I found out that I wouldn't have Financial Lit anymore. I'm hoping to binge on CW over this month and see how close I can come to finishing at least the first term of it. I might as well make the most out of the time I have free of other responsibilities at school, right?

Dude, seriously, it's such a relief to feel like I can relax now, even though Winter Break's still two weeks away. (I know, it's a really late break! Any other year I would be out in one.) I'm just gonna consider it an extra-long break, and also a break that makes it much harder to just waste my time watching TV. TV's great and all, but I just haven't done much besides read and watch TV in forever. ...I'm still probably gonna do quite a bit of reading, honestly, but I'm gonna try to get myself to do as much writing as possible- for the demon story from last summer that I need to finish, for WFAM, for fanfics (I haven't posted any since last summer!), and for whatever else I can think of! I desperately need to focus on writing, cuz I doubt I'll have the chance to do any next semester, nor during my time in college!

(I've actually gotten a bit of a head-start in that. Liz and I have returned to working on our fics together, after a long time of me not having the time for it or, honestly, not really feeling like working on it. We've worked together a couple times these past two weeks.)

I'm also hoping that the "scholarly atmosphere" (as if that actually happens at my school, but I can still try to pretend that there's one) will get me to do the small amounts of research I've wanted to do. I found a few notes here and there of stuff that I wanted to look more into over the semester, but never got myself to do, since- well, I had other things to worry about. I also want to read some of the stuff that we never got to in my textbooks before I have to give them back to the school. I mean, might as well, right?

I guess I can just get out of the way now my entertainment tidbits before returning to talking about writing. I watched Angel in the House (which is nothing like Corey in the House, despite the deceiving title) with my mom 2(?) weeks ago, which we actually liked quite a bit.

Also, on Friday, my dad took me out to watch Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them after school. Like, literally. He picked me up at school and drove us straight to the movie theater with no previous warning. There was some pretty dang cool stuff in the movie- like, say, the fantastic beasts?! Newt's workplace is also very awesome, and I liked one of the characters quite a bit. I dunno why, though, but there was just something about the movie that made me not like it as much as I was hoping I would... Don't make what I said stop you from watching it! Maybe it just means that I am indeed not as big a fan of Harry Potter as I think. As in, I'm not much of a fan, as suspected, and this is proving it. I have a very mixed relationship with HP and its universe and its fandom, as I believe I've described before.

The second season of Fuller House finally came out! ...And my sister had watched almost half of it while I was at school and watching Fantastic Beasts on Friday. She asked for forgiveness, but I can't forget such treachery.

Apparently, it tends to not be considered super normal to read and watch a lot of stuff that involves demons? I tried to tell Isaiah about something that I found, but I was pretty sure he wasn't familiar with anything Gravity Falls, so I only came up with saying that Transcendence was a fandom that involved a lot of stuff about demons...? I mean, even in-context, I guess that's kinda weird to hear, but it got worse because I had to just release a rant about finding a secret page where supposedly you summon Alcor, who bounces around on the screen and "talks" to you and stuff, and it'd gotten me all terrified even though I know perfectly well that Alcor doesn't exist, especially when I found the button that says, "I want to make a deal". He showed mild concern, and said "What have you been looking at lately?"

And it did not help that the day after, we found a random prop door in the school hallway (which we never found out the reason for). It made me immediately think, "Oh my gosh, Monsters, Inc." We eventually tried to open it, and it turned out it didn't actually open? I mean, it had a frame, and I assumed it had a hinge, but it didn't open, which even prop doors are supposed to do! So then I got really mad at the door because it scared me like that! And then turned out it was even faker of a door than a fake door! Just... who does that?!

So... yeah. I experienced a few moments of oh-my-gosh-what-if-that-cartoon-was-actually-real and what-is-wrong-with-people. Thus, spilling the rant to Isaiah mentioned earlier.

(Now that I'm thinking about Isaiah, I'm remembering that I hung out and sort-of studied with James, which we hadn't done for quite a while. It was nice.)

I guess something I can appreciate about TAU is that it proves that the main character (Jethro) in that short story from the summer is not the same as other interpretations of demons. I guess I can't say he's the most unique kind of demon ever, but at least I can feel confident that it's less likely someone will think I'm ripping off someone else's work? Maybe? I mean, the idea for him was mildly inspired by Gravity Falls, but he's proving to be very different from actual GF demons. That's good.

Though it also proves that I like reading stuff with demons. And Isaiah gets worried when people like reading stuff about demons.

I went to KF both Saturdays, and yesterday we went to a quinceañera. It was... basically the weirdest quinceañera we've ever been to. For real. Everyone just seemed so lost and confused and like there wasn't enough practice/preparation for just about anything.

On the upside, it helped me think of something for TAU fluff! When I first heard of the quince happening, I had a small, amusing thought of how Mabel would probably like to have a party like that, even though her family isn't Hispanic. If any "white" girl ever was gonna do something like that, it'd probably be Mabel.

Specifically for the Transcendence AU, this is what I came up with. If I gain enough confidence in it, I might actually send the headcanon(?) to the TAU page and see if I get a response about it. I have no idea if I will.

I think Mabel would absolutely love the idea of having a quinceañera, despite not being part-Hispanic (as far as we know), when she was younger. I mean, what wouldn't be appealing about basically being a princess for a day? However, concerns for it cropped up in her mind as early as her 13th birthday. Even if she wasn't worried about the fact that having such a party would mean the spotlight was only on her rather than both her and Dipper on their birthday, things changed far too much. What was celebrating a birthday if people thought she was the only twin left? What was celebrating another year of her brother losing his "human" status? People in their hometown didn't really like her or Dipper much anymore, anyway, and wouldn't want to assist a party held in her/their honor, whether their parents tried to deny that or not.

Instead, their 15th birthday was a rather small, awkward affair: the family opted to keep the festivities within their house- their mom prepared an elaborate breakfast and dinner, and their dad put on every movie Mabel and/or Dipper wanted to watch on the family TV. (As for presents... I don't even know what they'd try to give Dipper, honestly.)

When the twins moved back to Gravity Falls, it was easier to be happy in such a supportive community, and it felt more okay to do happy things. So, with months in advance, Dipper began a scheme to let his sister's dream come true after all, and throw her a Sweet 16. He enlisted the help of Soos and his grandma first, and then let in more and more people to the secret as he found that there needed to be damas, chambelanes, and who knows who else.

Of course, he couldn't keep it a secret from her for very long, considering she needed to pick a dress and practice the choreographed dances. She was absolutely touched that he went through all the trouble- especially considering he was still having a hard time maintaining a corporeal body in this plane for more than short bursts, along with all the other difficulties that inherently came from being a demon trying to interact with humans.

He assured her that he really wanted to do this for her and thought she deserved it; his sincerity and determination were enough for Mabel to agree to the whole thing.

Thus, the dieciséisañera- as it was called by those who could actually pronounce that- became the talk of the town, and it seemed just about everybody who knew the Pines was pitching in to make it possible.

Though most Gravity-Fallers had never gone to this particular sort of occasion before, they were all sure that it was the most spectacular 'ñera in history. The venue- a room in the Shack much larger than before, thanks to a deal with Dipper- was beautiful, the food was delicious (especially the cake), the entertainment was spectacular, and the birthday girl herself shined above all of that. Mabel radiated in her colorful dress, and grinned throughout the dinner, the waltzes, the ceremonies, the everything. She was having the time of her life, and her happiness was contagious.

By far, it was agreed that the highlight was the traditional "first waltz", which- of course- she danced with her brother (who changed his usual suit to include a vest, bow-tie, and pair of shoes that matched her dress). He spun her, swung her, and floated both around the spacious room in a fantastical display that only those within the room could appreciate, unlike the people back in California. He elicited squeals and giggles out of her with every move, and he laughed with her. The townspeople knew Dipper didn't laugh as much anymore.

When the party finally ended and cleanup began, the twins went over to the table of presents and discovered that there were just as many gifts left for Dipper as Mabel. If they were still wondering where their true home was, where they truly belonged... they were expelled right then and there.

A picture of the twins dancing in the ñera is within the scrapbook at the end of Book 3. 

I can't say for sure whether Mabel would really consider having such a party, but I wouldn't doubt that Dipper would do whatever he could to make it happen if she did. It would be just another show of how much he cared for her, and how he'd do anything to make his Mizar happy.