#flux2

[dominaexmachina]

Too much Mass Effect nostalgia, not enough space — so here are the posters.

[the13archives]

It’s been a long day and we know everyone is going to process these events a little bit differently. Here’s a message from the Thirteenth Doctor, for anyone who might need it right now 💙💙

We’ve decided to still post Flux 2.0 fanworks tomorrow in case anyone needs a distraction. We post to Ao3 at 11am GMT/6am EST ✨

If you’re feeling helpless and would like to put some good out into the world, this project is raising money for the Congo and hurricane relief in Asheville, NC. All digital downloads, and we have donation options as low as $1. The link is in our pinned post 🫶

[sapphicsgalaxy]

forgot to post yesterday but happy first birthday to flux 2.0, the full-length novelisation of doctor who s13 💙💙

eight authors (plus an amazing team of editors and artists), 160k+ words, and so much heart.

forever proud of @the13archives team and all we accomplished last year. ✨

read it here!

[whateverdudebethatway]

Famous pic of Bettie Page, upscaled and colorized by a local Flux2 model workflow. What are your thoughts?

[dominaexmachina]

Red flags convention 2026

[dominaexmachina]

"Life, death and one extremely committed mind flayer situationship."

[dominaexmachina]

Experimenting with references in Flux.2 dev – and I’m honestly blown away by the results.

[dominaexmachina]

My toxic love story with Flux 2 Dev

Now that I’ve spent some time actually playing with Flux 2 Dev, my feelings about it are… complicated.

My first impression was pure wow. The model follows references insanely well, it listens to the prompt like a very well-trained golden retriever, and it can generate exactly what you ask for with almost no artifacts. As long as you’re clear about what you want, from which reference, and in what style, Flux 2 Dev just delivers. It understands you frighteningly well.

But that same obedience turned out to be a downside for me.

I suddenly realised I’d lost that “Christmas present” feeling I usually get from image generation with Illustrious/Flux 1 Dev+LoRas. With Flux 2 Dev, the model is so precise and so loyal to the reference that it almost always gives me exactly the character I asked for — with barely any deviation, barely any “happy accidents”.

I’m used to generation as a kind of game with unpredictability, almost like neural network tarot:

I put in an intention and then see what the universe-model sends back.

Flux 2, on the other hand, feels like it’s saying:

“No, sweetheart, we’re not divining the future here.

You asked for this guy — here he is: stable, high-quality, and instantly recognisable. Almost. Every. Single. Time.”

And that feels like less magic of randomness,

more production of polished but predictable content.

In other words, I’ve lost a piece of that little ritual of surprise — and for a creative person, that’s actually a big part of the fun.

I’m also aware that this might simply be a “new model” phase. I’ve only just started working with Flux 2 Dev, and I’m still learning how to talk to it properly. My hope is that with better prompt design I’ll be able to find that sweet spot where I keep the strong reference fidelity, but still get the stylisation and the little bit of chaos that I’ve realised I really need to stay excited about the process.