Simon Stålenhag Things from the Flood

YFG Simon Stålenhag – Things from the Flood

Style
Inspired by the visual language of Simon Stålenhag’s Things from the Flood, this LoRA brings a moody, melancholic, near-future Scandinavian atmosphere to your generations. Expect muted skies, quiet roads, abandoned machinery, eerie suburban or rural environments, and a strong sense of isolation. It works especially well for landscapes, post-apocalyptic scenes, strange technology in everyday settings, and unsettling narrative imagery.

Trigger
Use YFG-SimonFlood style to reinforce the intended style.
The trigger is not strictly required, but it can help strengthen the effect depending on the prompt.

Strength
Tested across a wide range:

• 0.40 – 0.75 is the recommended range for most prompts

• 0.65 is a very solid starting point

• Good results are possible up to 1.10 with the right prompt

• Above that becomes less reliable

• Even very low strengths around 0.10 can still leave a visible stylistic influence

Key Characteristics

• Moody environmental tone – overcast skies, wet roads, winter fields, abandoned lots, and quiet urban edges.

• Near-future melancholy – strange machines, eerie structures, and advanced technology placed in otherwise ordinary landscapes.

• Cold muted palette – grays, blue-greens, pale winter light, dirty snow, and subdued industrial colors.

• Isolation & unease – deserted scenes, lone figures, abandoned vehicles, and a quiet apocalyptic feeling.

• Dark horror potential – can also lean into disturbing themes, blood, bloody ooze, and unsettling surreal imagery when prompted.

Prompt Ideas

• “A snow-covered suburban road with an abandoned machine in the distance, YFG-SimonFlood style.”

• “A lonely figure standing in an overgrown field beside a giant rusted robot, overcast sky, muted winter light.”

• “A dystopian urban alley with eerie industrial structures and strange glowing architecture, melancholy Scandinavian atmosphere.”

• “Two abandoned insect-like machines lying in the snow near a rural road, pale sky, quiet dread.”

• “A rain-soaked road at dusk facing a towering humanoid machine with glowing eyes, post-apocalyptic realism.”

Tips & Tricks

1. Works very well with landscapes and infrastructure

   • Roads, fields, forests, industrial outskirts, empty lots, apartment blocks, utility buildings, and suburban edges all fit naturally.

2. Keep the mood subdued

   • Terms like overcast, misty, rainy, snow-covered, abandoned, bleak, muted, and desolate help a lot.

3. Use technology sparingly but meaningfully

   • The style shines when strange machines or futuristic structures are inserted into otherwise grounded, realistic scenes.

4. Strong for dystopian and horror themes

   • If desired, the model can go darker with blood, gore-like ooze, unsettling figures, and ominous surrealism.

5. Don’t over-prompt

   • You usually do not need excessive style language. A grounded scene description plus the trigger word is often enough.

6. Best starting point

   • Try 0.65 strength first, then adjust up or down depending on how dominant you want the atmosphere to be.

Example Prompt Themes

The LoRA responds especially well to themes like:

• winter urban ruins

• lonely roads and fields

• abandoned machinery

• dystopian youth portraits

• wet concrete and snow

• rusted vehicles and industrial leftovers

• surreal towers and quiet suburbs

• post-apocalyptic Scandinavian landscapes

YFG Simon Stålenhag – Things from the Flood is ideal when you want a scene to feel quiet, cold, strange, and emotionally heavy. It captures that specific blend of ordinary landscape + unsettling futuristic intrusion that makes the source material so memorable. Start around 0.65, keep the prompt grounded, and let the LoRA bring in the eerie atmosphere.