Snapewife

English Etymology From en Snape wife. Proper noun Snapewives en fandom slang A female adherent of the mid-2000s new religious movement Snapeism. 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. en 2020 Tara Isabella Burton Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World https://www.google.com/books/edition/Strange_Rites/o4GnDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22snapewives%22&pg=PT75 unnumbered 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. en en eponyms en Harry Potter Religion