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lgbtqreads · 2 months

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Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Romances of 2024

Young Adult Okay, Cupid by Mason Deaver (January 2nd) As a cupid, Jude thinks they understand love a little bit more than the average human. It makes sense — Jude’s been studying love their whole teen life. And, yes, there have been some bumps in the road, and they’re currently on probation for doing something that they absolutely, definitely shouldn’t have done… but they’re ready to prove they…

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chezmeka · 1 year

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#meka #artbymeka #illustration #basketball #nba #lebron james #lakers

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thelesbianpoirot · 23 days

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Lee Winters, Kris Bryant and Melissa Tereze are just a few lesbian writers that write rich/dominant older woman stuff (I personally don’t enjoy their stuff as it’s very basic, bland writing and with the last author straight up smut with little plot which I need to get invested) but if you want adult normie lesbian writing that isn’t the usual soft queer lesbian shit this is it. For slightly better lesbian romance in color, there’s Meka James’ Being Hospitable series as well as Mangos and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera who writes a whole bunch of sweet but not watered down lesbian stuff. When I first came out i was reading anything lesbian and these aren’t winning any major book awards lol but they’re all strictly about female characters and exactly what they say on the tin plot wise.

I'll check out the rest! BEING HOSPITABLE IS THE SHIT! It is so fucking sexy, I've read it a million times, many times I just skipped to the sex scenes because I know the plot. Mangos and Mistletoe is very cute because I relate to it a lot. The rest I will have to google. I don't need it to be dom/bsdm stuff, because more than pissed off at the abuse of women, I just cringe at Bdsm practices and terminology. Good sex isn't totally rehearsed joyless and painful. But I love an older woman, I love a bit of toxic intensity, fictional cheating (real cheating makes me want to kill), love is my drug type of MESS and DRAMA.

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qbdatabase · 9 months

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Could you please recommend me books with bi butch and femme MC(s)?

Bisexual / MGA Femme MCs

Mechanics of Love by Meka James: older black femme mga female MC x older black butch lesbian female MC

Femme Like Her by Fionna Zedd: black femme bisexual female MC x black femme lesbian female LI

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler: femme questioning polysexual female MC x butch lesbian female LI

Bisexual / MGA Butch MCs

In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae: bisexual female MC x butch bisexual female LI

MGA x WLW Butch (bi MC isn't butch, but the rep is there)

Havenfall by Sara Holland: bisexual female MC x butch lesbian female (possible) LI

The Spectacular by Zoe Whittall: questioning mga female MC x butch non-binary LI (for the mga female MC)

The Awkward Truth by Lee Winter: bisexual female MC x butch lesbian female LI

Season of Love by Helena Greer: Jewish bisexual female MC x fat recovering alcoholic butch lesbian female LI

Then Everything Happens at Once by M. E. Girard: fat bisexual female MC x male (possible) LI; butch wlw female (possible) LI

full notes on representation and publishing info at qbdatabase.com

#bisexual #bi rep #butch #femme #wlw #wlw rep #book recs #queer books #bisexual-coala #ask #answered

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averyqueerchristmas · 1 year

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I have lists for Queer Holiday Films and TV Shows, so if you're a reader here's a list of some Queer Holiday Books! (Some of these are short stories).

Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochran - WLW

You're a Mean One Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky - MLM

The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish - MLM & WLW

Mangoes And Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera - WLW

Faux Ho Ho by Nathan Burgoine - MLM (five of the books in his 'Little Village Series' are Queer Holiday romances)

Written In The Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur - WLW

A Christmas Parranda by Andrea Beatriz Arango - WLW

The Geek Who Saved Christmas by Annabeth Albert - MLM

In The Winter Woods by Isabelle Adler - MLM

Being Merry by Meka James - WLW

His Christmas Sweater by C.M Valencourt - MLM

The Bluest Christmas by Deja Elise - WLW

The Holiday Treatment by Elle Spencer - WLW

The Christmas Lights Battle by Skylar M. Cates - MLM

Collie Jolly by Leigh Landry - WLW

In The Event Of Love by Courtney Kae - WLW

This Winter by Alice Oseman - Queer

Let Your Hearts Be Light by Fae Quin - Gay

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mariacallous · 8 months

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

So far this year, Quanta has chronicled three major advances in Ramsey theory, the study of how to avoid creating mathematical patterns. The first result put a new cap on how big a set of integers can be without containing three evenly spaced numbers, like {2, 4, 6} or {21, 31, 41}. The second and third similarly put new bounds on the size of networks without clusters of points that are either all connected, or all isolated from each other.

The proofs address what happens as the numbers involved grow infinitely large. Paradoxically, this can sometimes be easier than dealing with pesky real-world quantities.

For example, consider two questions about a fraction with a really big denominator. You might ask what the decimal expansion of, say, 1/42503312127361 is. Or you could ask if this number will get closer to zero as the denominator grows. The first question is a specific question about a real-world quantity, and it’s harder to calculate than the second, which asks how the quantity 1/n will “asymptotically” change as n grows. (It gets closer and closer to 0.)

“This is a problem plaguing all of Ramsey theory,” said William Gasarch, a computer scientist at the University of Maryland. “Ramsey theory is known for having asymptotically very nice results.” But analyzing numbers that are smaller than infinity requires an entirely different mathematical toolbox.

Gasarch has studied questions in Ramsey theory involving finite numbers that are too big for the problem to be solved by brute force. In one project, he took on the finite version of the first of this year’s breakthroughs—a February paper by Zander Kelley, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Raghu Meka of the University of California, Los Angeles. Kelley and Meka found a new upper bound on how many integers between 1 and N you can put into a set while avoiding three-term progressions, or patterns of evenly spaced numbers.

Though Kelley and Meka’s result applies even if N is relatively small, it doesn’t give a particularly useful bound in that case. For very small values of N, you’re better off sticking to very simple methods. If N is, say, 5, just look at all the possible sets of numbers between 1 and N, and pick out the biggest progression-free one: {1, 2, 4, 5}.

But the number of different possible answers grows very quickly and makes it too difficult to employ such a simple strategy. There are more than 1 million sets consisting of numbers between 1 and 20. There are over 1060 using numbers between 1 and 200. Finding the best progression-free set for these cases takes a hefty dose of computing power, even with efficiency-improving strategies. “You need to be able to squeeze a lot of performance out of things,” said James Glenn, a computer scientist at Yale University. In 2008, Gasarch, Glenn, and Clyde Kruskal of the University of Maryland wrote a program to find the biggest progression-free sets up to an N of 187. (Previous work had gotten the answers up to 150, as well as for 157.) Despite a roster of tricks, their program took months to finish, Glenn said.

To lessen their computational load, the team used simple tests that prevented their program from pursuing dead-end searches and split their sets into smaller parts that they analyzed separately.

Gasarch, Glenn, and Kruskal also tried several other strategies. One promising idea leaned on randomness. A simple way to come up with a progression-free set is to put 1 in your set, then always add the next number that doesn’t create an arithmetic progression. Follow this procedure until you hit the number 10, and you’ll get the set {1, 2, 4, 5, 10}. But it turns out this isn’t the best strategy in general. “What if we don’t start at 1?” Gasarch said. “If you start at a random place, you actually do better.” Researchers have no idea why randomness is so useful, he added.

Calculating the finite versions of the two other new Ramsey theory results is even more vexing than determining the size of progression-free sets. Those results concern mathematical networks (called graphs) made up of nodes connected by lines called edges. The Ramsey number r(s, t) is the smallest number of nodes a graph must have before it becomes impossible to avoid including either a group of s connected nodes or t disconnected ones. The Ramsey number is such a headache to compute that even r(5, 5) is unknown—it’s somewhere between 43 and 48.

In 1981, Brendan McKay, now a computer scientist at Australian National University, wrote a software program called nauty, which was intended to make calculating Ramsey numbers simpler. Nauty ensures that researchers don’t waste time checking two graphs that are just flipped or rotated versions of one another. “If somebody’s in the area and is not using nauty, the game is over. You must use it,” said Stanisław Radziszowski, a mathematician at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Still, the amount of computation involved is almost incomprehensible. In 2013, Radziszowski and Jan Goedgebeur proved that r(3, 10) is at most 42. “It took, I think, almost 50 CPU years,” said Goedgebeur, a computer scientist at KU Leuven University in Belgium.

If you can’t compute an exact Ramsey number, you can try narrowing down its value with examples. If you found a 45-node graph without five nodes that were all connected and without five nodes that were all disconnected, that would prove that r(5, 5) is bigger than 45. Mathematicians studying Ramsey numbers used to think that finding those examples, called Ramsey graphs, would be simple, Radziszowski said. But it wasn’t so. “There was this expectation that nice, cool mathematical constructions will give the best possible constructions, and we just need more people to work on it,” he said. “My feeling is more and more that it’s chaotic.”

Randomness is both an obstacle to understanding and a useful tool. Geoffrey Exoo, a computer scientist at Indiana State University, has spent years refining random methods to generate Ramsey graphs. In a 2015 paper announcing dozens of new, record-beating Ramsey graphs, Exoo and Milos Tatarevic generated random graphs and then gradually tweaked them by deleting or adding edges that reduced the number of unwanted clusters until they found a Ramsey graph. Exoo’s techniques are as much an art as anything, though, Radziszowski said. They sometimes require him to combine multiple methods, or to use judgment about what kind of graphs to start with. “Many, many people try it, and they cannot do it,” Radziszowski said.

The techniques developed to generate Ramsey graphs could be more broadly useful someday, said Goedgebeur, who has worked on producing other kinds of graphs, such as graphs that represent chemical compounds. “It is not unlikely that these techniques can also be transferred and adjusted to help generate other classes of graphs more efficiently (and vice versa),” he wrote in an email.

To Radziszowski, however, the reason for studying the small Ramsey numbers is much simpler. “Because it’s open, because nobody knows what the answer is,” he said. “The trivial cases we do by hand; a little larger, you need a computer, and a little larger, even the computer is not good enough. And so the challenge emerges.”

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sharlinefreire · 1 year

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hello there! ♡

my name is sharline freire, my pronouns are she/her, i am brazilian, writer, journalist student, vegetarian and i love films, tv shows, fanfictions, books, comics and music.

my fav artists:

fav actors: jack quaid, diego luna, michael fassbender, matthew macfadyen, bill hader, colin farrell, adam scott;

fav directors: greta gerwig, céline sciamma, guillermo del toro, m. night shyamalan, paul thomas anderson, darren aronofsky, steven spielberg, jonas mekas;

fav writers: pedro bandeira, neil gaiman, elena ferrante, clarice lispector, taylor jenkins reid;

fav singers/bands: taylor swift, sufjan stevens, hozier, florence and the machine, lorde, mitski, the lumineers, the national, kodaline, glee cast, elton john, the beatles, imagine dragons, coldplay, bts;

my fav shows, films and characters:

my fav shows: good omens, doctor who, hannibal, sherlock bbc, house m.d, star trek tos, cobra kai, what we do in the shadows, dirk gently's holistic detective agency, glee, dexter, twin peaks, better call saul, succession, my brilliant friend, ozark, the office, the big bang theory, anne with an e, this is us, over the garden wall, queer eye, mr. bean;

my fav characters: sherlock holmes, john watson, the doctor, donna noble, aziraphale, crowley, tom wambsgans, magneto, johnny lawrence, daniel larusso, gregory house, james wilson, hannibal lecter, mr. spock, loki laufeyson, dexter morgan, dale cooper, benji dunn, obi-wan kenobi, cassian andor, mike wazowski, mr. bean;

my ships/couples:

aziraphale/crowley (good omens); canon!

clara/12th doctor (doctor who);

donna/10th+14th doctor (doctor who);

obs: aziraphale and crowley are non-binary and the doctor is agender/gender fluid so i don't put them in m/m or f/m.

my m/m ships:

sherlock/john (sherlock holmes);

house/wilson (house m.d);

charles/erik (x-men, marvel);

jim/dwight (the office);

daniel/johnny (karate kid, cobra kai);

jack/ennis (brokeback mountain); canon!

butcher/hughie (the boys);

tom/greg (succession, hbo);

spock/kirk (star trek);

finn/poe (star wars);

hannibal/will (hannibal, nbc); canon!

merlin/arthur (merlin, bbc);

dean/castiel (supernatural);

benji/ethan (mission impossible);

stede/edward (our flag means death); canon!

dirk/todd (dirk gently's holistic detective agency);

rajesh/howard (the big bang theory);

félix/nico (amor à vida); canon!

steve/tony (avengers, marvel);

abed/troy (community);

nick/gatsby (the great gatsby);

nandor/guillermo (what we do in the shadows);

connor/oliver (how to get away with murder); canon!

my f/f ships:

emma/regina (once upon a time);

eve/villanelle (killing eve); canon!

rory/paris (gilmore girls);

my f/m ships:

amy/sheldon (the big bang theory); canon!

sydney/carmy (the bear, fx);

kim/jimmy (better call saul); canon!

scully/mulder (x-files) canon!

lorelai/luke (gilmore girls); canon!

eleanor/chidi (the good place); canon!

gerri/roman (succession); ???

willa/connor (succession); canon!

leia/han (star wars); canon!

anyway, my ao3 account is sharlinefreire and my user on twitter is also sharlinefreire.

check my carrd of more informations: sharlinefreire.carrd.co

welcome to my tumblr! ♡

#about me #hi i am sharline #welcome to my tumblr #fixed post #pinned post #this is my life i guess #unfortunately i love queerbaiting im sorry

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paulthomaskubrick · 3 months

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WISH YOU WERE HERE from Ryan Njenga on Vimeo.

Glorie Umaru (Jelani Talib) and Stella Mohammed (Breunna Franklin) look back on their relationship, in individual therapy sessions, and try to answer the big question: where did things go wrong?

ACCOLADES: Screened at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Awarded “Best Actress” at the Tokyo International Short Film Festival “Best Writer” at the Venice Full-Shot Film Festival.

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Kansas City Underground Film Festival and the LA Lift-Off Film Festival

Directed by Ryan Njenga Executive Producer Samuel Bricker Produced by Connor Sandheinrich Written by Ryan Njenga & Ishan Parikh Starring Jelani Talib, Breunna Franklin, FREDD1E FRESH, Adrianna J, Edward Patterson, Meka P, Director of Photography: Jacob Schermerhorn Production & Costume Designer: Dalima Kapten Edited by Diego Astorga Score Composed & Orchestrated by Tim Harte & Madison Monroe Performed by the Royal Orchestra Ensemble Players Gaffer: Dylan Groves “Portrait of Stella Mohammed, 2020” photo print by James Foos Poster Art by James Foos & Ryan Njenga

A NJENGA FILMS PRODUCTION

A film by ryan njenga

ryannjenga.com

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the-book-queen · 7 months

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Hide your wallets, it's that time again! Your daily thread of romance deals is ready, FREE to $2.99!

FREE ✦ Renovation of Love by Meka James

1st POV. Second chance. She returns to her hometown after inheriting her aunt's old Victorian. He's the owner of the only construction company around, and she needs his help.

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3rjSRS0

FREE ✦ Tinderbox by Rachel Grant

Archaeologist in need of protection after being threatened + Green Beret stationed near her dig site.

Romantic Suspense (MF) | https://amzn.to/3Lw2J1J

$0.99 ✦ Chasing Tail by Golden Angel

4 books, including:

~ Wolf shifter + bunny shifter

~ Doctor/puma shifter heroine

Paranormal Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/48gberx

$1.99 ✦ A Proposal They Can't Refuse by Natalie Cana

Puerto Rican chef + Irish American whiskey distiller are forced into a fake engagement by their meddling grandfathers.

I liked this one.

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3ZnFmNE

$2.99 ✦ Unfinished Business by Nora Roberts

Second chance. She is a renowned concert pianist, he's now the doctor in their hometown.

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/44VZxDp

Putting these lists together takes time. If you appreciate this content, please consider buying me a Ko-Fi. http://ko-fi.com/danielletbq

#book deals #romance novels #contemporary romance #romantic suspense #paranormal romance #mf romance

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lgbtqreads · 3 months

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Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day 2024!

Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day! In celebration of this day, here are a whole bunch of books that center queer girls and women in sports! (For even more recs, check out 2022‘s post!) Fiction You Don’t Have a Shot by Racquel Marie Valentina “Vale” Castillo-Green’s life revolves around soccer. Her friends, her future, and her father’s intense expectations are all wrapped up in the…

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simmerjazen · 4 years

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Book Sale

Hey guys, so I think most of you know I have an author life outside of sims. Welp one of my books is on sale for the weekend. Get it for only $0.99 or if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber you can read it there as well.

Anything Once

Four letters, so simple and unassuming. Four letters that change everything. P.O.R.N. After a decade of marriage, Quinn Faraday believes her relationship is solid. No secrets. Yet, it only takes one night to make her question it all. The new revelation allows worries to mount and insecurities to grow. But after a candid conversation with her husband, she makes a surprising declaration in hopes of rebuilding their foundation. She's willing to fulfill his sexual fantasies. She's willing to try anything once... However, Quinn and Ian’s sexual journey brings to light another unspoken issue lurking under the surface. Learning to communicate honestly is key or they might just risk losing it all.

CW: Discussions on infertility.

#Meka James #Author life #nonsims #Anything Once #readers of tumblr #bookworm #romance books #romance readers #married #married couple romance #kindle #kindle unlimited #book sale

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authormekajames · 5 years

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A friends-to-lovers tale that takes you on a journey of heart break and recovery.

Sometimes trusting yourself is harder than trusting the man that loves you.

Not Broken

#NotBroken #Meka James #kindleunlimited #romance #romance book #interracial romance #amazon #kindle #contemporary romance #books of tumblr #readers of tumblr #book lover #bookworm #bookish

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jerisbookattic · 3 years

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Heat of Love by Meka James

Heat of Love by Meka James is LIVE! One-Click today! Amazon: http://mybook.to/HoLBUY B&N: http://bit.ly/HoLBN Kobo: http://bit.ly/HoLKobo Apple: http://bit.ly/HoLApple Google: http://bit.ly/HoLGoogle Add it to your TBR list on Goodreads: http://bit.ly/HoLTBR A fire claims her bakery, but the young special investigator sent to determine the cause just might scorch through the barriers around…

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#Meka James

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mikkuchan07 · 3 years

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Release Blitz: Renovation of Love by Meka James

Hello my lovely followers, I am delighted to have you on my blog today in celebration of Meka Jame’s latest book Renovations of Love (out now!). Read further for all the necessary book details. Happy reading. Continue reading

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atumbleamongthepages · 3 years

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New Release: Renovation of Love, by @authormekajames

Her return could be a second chance to repair a first love… Forty-three and jobless, Cynthia Marshall finds herself in the last place she’d expected, back home on Madison Island, GA. Her small hometown holds the ghosts of choices past. From the large Victorian she inherited from her beloved aunt, to unresolved family issues, and the boy turned man she left behind over two decades ago. Starting a…

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#love on madison island #meka james #New Release #renovation of love #Romance

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myromancebooksworld · 3 years

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Part 4.

#bookhauls before December 2020 #kendra elliot #Elle Kennedy #Melinda Leigh #lyssa kay adams #b cranford #meka james #Katrina Jackson

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