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[TigerPlushie]

"The Balls of Dignity"? XD

First thing I realised too. Brilliant name.

Biban: "...The Balls of Dignity?"
Engraver: "Yes, I made this in remember of your balls, that you have officially lost when you jumped on your throne shrieking!"

[Torgan]

My ex-Mayor's new hovel getting engraved with pictures of him leaving office.

This is an engraving of Dwarves.  Urist Mcexmayor is surrounded by the dwarves.  The dwarves look stern, Urist is weeping.  This relates to the removal of Urist as mayor in the year 1234. 

Also loads of some human taming giant eagles 1000 years ago. :/

[bdog]

I remember a bit buggy engraving with image of my green glass barrel artifact.
Which of corse changed every time something was placed in that artifact.
One day it was image of Plant Green Glass Barrel the other day it was Meat Green Glass Barrel.

I'd love to imagine that every night some dwarf goes and update that image to keep track of whats inside and where it is (which stockpile)

[Corona688]

Oh they just hang pegs on it so they can put a little card of whatever's in it that day there.

[Hyndis]

I had a fortress where almost every single engraving was of the former mayor weeping, looking miserable, or curled up in a fetal position.

He had lost an election to another guy. Apparently he was a very sore loser.

[tastypaste]

In my first DF2010 fort my militia commander died of thirst because I didn't understand schedules yet. The engravers covered the dining hall in images relating to the dehydration Melbil Oceanchannel, so everyone could drink exquisite booze while admiring the dozens of images of Melbil standing in the barracks slowing dying of dehydration. One dwarf even made an artifact figurine with Melbil on it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://imgur.com/aQiP2.png

[Lord Dakoth]

Aside from having engravings of engravings of engravings of artifacts which depicted other artifacts, my main meeting hall was once engraved with images of elves striking down other elves and devouring each other. T'was not an appetizing sight, I imagine, but was doggone hilarious.

Oh yes, I also had an artifact made that depicted a moody dwarf gone berserk being struck down by the military. The way I look at it is, "Hey, you failed at making an artifact, so I'm going to make an artifact for the sole purpose of making a shrine to your failure." Asshole.

Another one was an iron shield artifact that depicted a goblin ambush cutting down immigrants. >_< Bet the bearer felt confident while he charged into combat.

[Shardok]

Yeah... Definitely nothing too inappropriate, but it just seems out of place in my fortress. Apparently the symbol of my dwarves group (The Riddled Treaty) is Dimple Cups. Those are the pretty little underground plant that looks like a heart. So now my fortress is covered in hearts and G's. The G's are images of travelling giants. I'm unsure why my engravers seems fascinated with these two giants and specifically with their 14th and 69th journey. (Anguishlobster and Trumpetdrink are the giants last names, can't remember their first) Although chances are it has something to do with me getting mad at the megabeasts never dying (even after 10000 years of world generation) and deciding that adding giants as a civilization might take care of that. It did take care of the megabeasts, but it also took care of the elves, the goblins, and the humans. Currently in "The Age of the Dwarves" which has lasted for about 8000 years, so I like to think that all those dead elves, goblins and humans are some kind of myth to the dwarves, as I've seen very few images of them in my fortress.

[Marconius]

10000 year long world gen sounds cool... I should try that once.

Also, Anguishlobster has to be like... the best name ever!

[Tuxman]

One time, I had a craftsdwarf be possessed. So I thought, "Great, a new artifact." 
Well I got one.

"Scornspark, The Ferocious Hammer"

"This is a Marble bracelet. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of shad bone. This object menaces with spikes of Marble and Aquamarine."

Why do I talk about a bracelet?
Well, I was engraving a huge hall, and was about halfway through when this bracelet was made.

Well, there's a clear dividing line in the dining room now. One side, varied carvings. On the other, Scornspark, everywhere. Everywhere...
it has calmed down, but 1 out of every ten engravings is scornspark...
I think I have discovered the ring (bracelet) of power. Time to take it off to mount doom to smelt it...

My next megaproject... a temple for   "Skornspark, the Ferocious Hammer"
It will have armed guards and drawbridges. It will have a large pit in case any dwarves feel like committing suicide after being overwhelmed by its beauty. A truly dwarfy way to go

[Biag]

A truly dwarfy way to go

The dwarven attitude towards suicide: "I'd better make sure I die now, because nobody is as qualified to kill me as I am."

Hence the ignoring fire, self-dehydration, poor balance when near rivers and carp, and so forth.

[Rastaan]

Like my trade depot being engraved with pictures of elves being beaten up by goblins, flanked with gold statues of humans being squished by a hill titan by the name of Smug.

EDIT: I should say, the room my trade depot is IN is engraved. Still. Elves died. Watcha gonna do about it.

[Spotswood]

In my first DF2010 fort my militia commander died of thirst because I didn't understand schedules yet. The engravers covered the dining hall in images relating to the dehydration Melbil Oceanchannel, so everyone could drink exquisite booze while admiring the dozens of images of Melbil standing in the barracks slowing dying of dehydration. One dwarf even made an artifact figurine with Melbil on it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://imgur.com/aQiP2.png

What an asshole, the guy dehydrated, and the figurine gets called "The Big Eater"

[Satarus]

This is one that started out bad, but turned out to be good.  I'd had a few figurines and decorations depiect some goblins.  I fired up legends modes to check them out.  Turns out each goblin had been one slaughtered by my militia.  Iron clad dwarves with steel weapons are pretty brutal against those iron/copper wearing goblins.

[Grumman]

I've got a legendary blacksmith thanks to a lucky mood - got an artifact steel anvil at the cost of 1 steel bar, too. Since then I've had him churning out gold statues as fast as I can get the materials. The problem is that 2 of his 6 gold statues have been of cockroaches. And he hates cockroaches!