Raccoon 🏳️🌈 :unverified:<p>If <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/interspecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>interspecies</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>war</span></a> sounds like a concept that only exists in <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scifi</span></a> and <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fantasy</span></a>, remember that humans have fought wars against <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/emus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>emus</span></a> and <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/whales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>whales</span></a>.</p><p>The book <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/MobyDick" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MobyDick</span></a> was, at the time, <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/RealisticFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RealisticFiction</span></a> about the ongoing counter-attacks that <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/SpermWhales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpermWhales</span></a> were doing against anything that looked like a <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/whaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>whaling</span></a> ship, and the ongoing efforts of the whaling ships to fight them, effectively a war between whales and <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/whalers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>whalers</span></a>.</p><p>It's not fiction, it's the result of <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/specieism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>specieism</span></a>.</p>