# Go Flux Yourself: Midjourney Still Runs the Realism Game

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Podcast: [Fast Hours](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fast-hours-6954465)
Published: 2025-11-16T13:25:45+00:00
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## Resource

Drew and Rory start with eyeball horror, Stranger Things hype, and the idea of AI-powered contact lenses before stumbling straight into the real mind-melt: Midjourney, Grok Imagine, Mystic 3, and Flux all colliding in one episode. They roast their own prompts, trigger an accidental NSF-DoubleU moment live inside Grok, argue about “flux face,” and still somehow manage to pull out real, practical tips for people trying to make better AI images without losing their minds. Across an hour of chaos, they unpack Midjourney v8’s subtle shifts, hidden personalization signals, Style Explorer tricks, Smart Search shortcuts, Grok’s Sora-style infinite feed, Mystic 3’s scary-good skin detail, and why Midjourney still owns lo-fi, lived-in, “shot-on-a-phone” energy. If you care about composition, cinematic ratios, editorial portraits, food realism, or just want to hear two people dunk on Flux and node editors while actually teaching you something, this one hits. Listeners will come away knowing how to use stills archive for composition, when to skip upscales for more analog realism, how Grok Imagine’s image + video workflow really behaves, and where Mystic 3 can replace Midjourney in a serious portrait or product stack. -- ⏱️ Midjourney Fast Hour 0:00 Intro, eyeballs, and a Friday brain check 2:05 Contact lens horror stories, Mission Impossible, Black Mirror eyes 3:07 Stranger Things Season 5 hype and binge vs weekly TV 4:51 Movies, biopics, sports docs, and couch season setting in 6:23 Cowboys documentary, sports pipelines, and TV as passive story feed 7:00 AI overload, nobody keeping up, and why this pod exists 8:30 Midjourney profiles, Style Creator, and new personalization talk 9:29 Like/dislike buttons as hidden training data and 7:3 aspect ratio love 10:35 Stills Archive, cinem…

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