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• Where neon goes to die by monkeylamp

  Fandoms: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV)  

  • General Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • F/M, Other
  • Work in Progress

  27 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Lenny Bruce (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)/Miriam "Midge" Maisel
  • Lenny Bruce (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) & Susie Myerson
  • Lenny Bruce & Miriam "Midge" Maisel & Susie Myerson
  • Lenny Bruce/Honey Harlow
  • Miriam "Midge" Maisel/Susie Myerson
  • Miriam "Midge" Maisel
  • Susie Myerson
  • Lenny Bruce (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
  • Sally Marr
  • Rose Weissman
  • Historical Accuracy
  • Canon Compliant
  • Post-Canon
  • Headcanon
  • kinda aligned with lenny bruce's real life events
  • taylor swift wrote florida!!! about midge and lenny
  • hurricane lenny
  • hurricane mention
  • Implied/Referenced Drug Use
  • Drug Withdrawal
  • Drug Addiction
  • lots of historical references and period-based jokes
  • Period Typical Attitudes
  • Period Typical Bigotry
  • midge maisel blows carnegie
  • It's not her fault though
  • well it kind of is but if only certain people would pay less attention...
  • lenny bruce in the navy
  • sally marr is midge's fan
  • susie knows what she's doing
  • rose weissman's matchmaking business turns out to be not so bad after all... once.
  • political jokes dirty jokes mental-health-issues-jokes
  • lots of smoking and lots of drinking
  • one too many four-letter word
  • it's lenny bruce y'all 4-letter words are MANDATORY
  • Blasphemy
  • pope jokes
  • surprisingly enough they didn't come from lenny!
  • benjamin ettenberg mention
  • Period-Typical Sexism
  • susie myerson is quite a pimp!
  • Historical References
  • midge maisel isnt really fond of corsets and bras after all
  • lenny bruce has a whole new set worth of fresh material and he will spare NO ONE
  • especially his manager
  • lenny bruce likes susie's management skills but he will never tell her
  • pill talk
  • and pillow talk too
  • midge as BOILING takes about the vietnam war AND SHE WILL VOCALIZE THEM
  • beta read too much to the point i would add something more every time so the final draft is definitely:
  • Not Beta Read
  • we die in our stream of consciousness like an observational comic bombing on new material!
  • there are some graphic descriptions (blood / drug use / sex) but i will preface them with a content warning
  • needless to say that you probably shouldn't read this if you are sensitive to and/or
  • offended by and/or triggered by vulgar language including swear words profanity blasphemy

  Summary

  Miami Beach is where neon, Lenny Bruce, and Midge Maisel go to die. A collection of the romantic adventures and the showbiz misadventures of two comics in the ‘Hurricane State’. Your modern Paolo and Francesca in your Floridan infernal tempest.
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  Ultimately, both their careers are on the line. Yet again, Miami Beach proves to be the ultimate matchmaker.

  (title is from Lenny's quote, "Miami Beach is where neon goes to die")

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  15,479

  Chapters:

  7/11

  Comments:

  1

  Hits:

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