Well I am loving it. Those dwarves are still so wonderful, I love their faces. The mapgen looks really pretty with your tileset too and you colour choices are a really refreshing change. I like how the table and chairs have evolved.
I also really like the font. It looks great but I would love to see a thinner typeset. The text takes up huge ammounts of screen space and is harder to read because it is all so spaced out. Do you think you could make a less square font?
For instance, workshop text goes off the edge of the widest tab available.
You can see how big the spacing is on the embark blurb.
And how it can take up over a third of the screen.
I do love it though, the text spacing is my only real gripe. The font goes really well with the theme. Plus there might be some simple init/twbt setting I am missing that could help with the character spacing.
Cats also seem somehow cuter with your olde English font.
I'm enjoying playing it closer to it's ascii roots. I could tell horses, dogs and cats straight away. Though if you wanted to make them more pictographic yet abstract in the style of you dwarves, chairs, stairs etc. I reckon that could work also.
Anyway, I decided to have a break when summer came. This is my very quickly built ad-hoc fort so far.
I'm looking forward to playing more and seeing how you choose to develop it further. Great work.