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.