Citations:Snapewife

English citations of Snapewife and Snapewives

Noun: "(fandom slang) a female adherent of the mid-2000s new religious movement Snapeism"

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• 2014, Zoe Alderton, "'Snapewives' and 'Snapeism': A Fiction-Based Religion within Harry Potter Fandom", Religions, Volume 5, Issue 1, page 257:

  The Snapewives are an extreme facet of a much larger fandom milieu.

• 2018, Markus Altena Davidsen, "The religious affordance of fiction: a semiotic approach", in Narrative and Belief: The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Fiction (ed. Markus Altena Davidsen), unnumbered page:

  Apparent counter-evidence is found in Zoe Alderton's (2014) description of the Snapewife community, a group of women who have claimed that Snape is real and have married him on the astral plane.

• 2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:

  But the story of the Snapewives is inseparable from the story of the rise of Internet fan culture as a whole: the story of how we as a broader culture have transformed the way we insert ourselves—our loves, our wants, our desires, our chosen narratives—into the stories we consume.

• 2022, Andrew Monteith, "Transhumanism, Utopia, and the Problem of the Real in Ready Player One", The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Volume 34, Issue 1, Spring 2022, page 10:

  Although Brony tulpas and Snapewives may practice a unique kind of fandom, one might consider that fan fiction writings across a range of imaginary worlds do similar work by speculating what it might be like to interact with favourite characters.

• 2023, Sophie Duncan, Juliet: The Life and Afterlives of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine, unnumbered page:

  […] or the mid-2000s phenomenon of 'Snapewives', Harry Potter fans who constructed a mystical faith centred on the belief that they were married to the fictional character Severus Snape on the astral plane.