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[NW_Kohaku]

My last fortress had an odd tendency to make statues about the goblin sieges that had just happened.

Only instead of being about the dorfs killing goblins, it was about the goblins shooting the humans my dorfs cohabitated with. This might be what sparked the war with them...

These sorts of "historic events" tend to have a very large chance of being recorded.

In one of my fortresses, I embarked on a mountain near enough a goblin citidel that I "inherited" much of their history for use in engraving.  (40d, so it's technically not for statues.)  The goblins were badly outnumbered by the powerful elven civ nearby, and basically fought back by kidnapping elves, and having the kidnapped elves fight the regular elves. 

My artwork had about a 40% chance of being about an elf dying in some horrible way.  I couldn't always tell, but I'm pretty sure they were all hot elf-on-elf murder scenes. I like to think that my fortress's artwork's major theme was, "Damn, it's good to be a dwarf!"

[Jake]

I'm still chuckling over the green glass statue of my expedition leader surrounded by mussels whilst looking terrified, made by a glassmaker who was apparently a friend of hers. I like to think of it as some kind of in-jokey thing.

And said glassmaker also provided me with a masterwork statue of the dwarven god associated with wealth, which I placed in my huge stockpile full of more stone crafts and clothing than the fortress can ever sell.

[Ipwnurmom221]

Planespacked.

Need I say more?

[Masterspartacus]

Planespacked.

Need I say more?

Yeah but your dorfs didn't make planespacked did they?

I had a dorf who engraved himself engraving a masterful engraving of a masterful engraving. I was rather proud of his accomplishment, he got to legendary by walking in the front door and immediately going fey and making the most useless artifact ring to date.

[Girlinhat]

he got to legendary by walking in the front door and immediately going fey and making the most useless artifact ring to date.

This is a masterful horse hair ring.  All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.  It is not adorned with any hanging rings.  It is not menacing with any spikes.  It has the mystical effect of making your fortress wealth lower than it was before.

[Dorf3000]

he got to legendary by walking in the front door and immediately going fey and making the most useless artifact ring to date.

This is a masterful horse hair ring.  All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.  It is not adorned with any hanging rings.  It is not menacing with any spikes.  It has the mystical effect of making your fortress wealth lower than it was before.

I think I found one of those in my bathtub once.

[brucemo]

well i've been to a region in china, where processed meat of rat, or rat-like rodent was considered exquisited, and, at least generally, preserved for someone important or a guest. despite my hatred toward rat, the meat was fantastic!
so i guess you are right.

I can just hear them after you left: "Did you see that tourist?  He ate RAT and LIKED it!  Crazy foreigners!"

[strongrudder]

Something that made me smile recently was when I made a fort's very first statue. It was of my weaponsmith raising up his artifact iron battleaxe, "Mortalwatch." Awesome name, awesome artifact, so I was pleased overall. Set the statue up in the main hall and made it a room. Immediately the weaponsmith threw a party there.

[Pukako]

My second ever fort, I had a statue of a dwarf making a statue of a terrified goblin being crushed by a drawbridge.  I think it was also encrusted with pictures of either kittens or plump helmets, in rose quartz. It made my brain hurt for a bit, then I sorted it out.

I imagined it like a flowing tableau rather than a simple statue, and I put it next to the goblin stockpile, to show them what was waiting for them...

[Dippimunch]

when i trained my metalsmiths, i ended up with over a dozen masterfully/exceptionally designed statues of large roach.
then i put those statues in rooms of people who detest roach.

While training a stonesmith, I noticed an influx of the same oddly-themed sculptures in my queues. It just so happened, though, that the artist HIMSELF despised these filthy little insects. So there's this masochistic mason dedicating his days to neurotically creating the things that vex him most, which I find most humorous. 

[NW_Kohaku]

Yeah, whenever you are going to be setting up someone for jobs like engraving, you have to ensure they don't despise any vermin, because they will have a bizzarely high probability of engraving or carving the things they hate most, and then being disgusted by their own work, or disgusting others with their work.  They're even more likely to work the things they hate than the things they like.

[UristMcDwarf]

Yeah, whenever you are going to be setting up someone for jobs like engraving, you have to ensure they don't despise any vermin, because they will have a bizzarely high probability of engraving or carving the things they hate most, and then being disgusted by their own work, or disgusting others with their work.  They're even more likely to work the things they hate than the things they like.

Dwarfs get unhappy thoughts by looking at works of things they dislike?

[NW_Kohaku]

Dwarfs get unhappy thoughts by looking at works of things they dislike?

Yes, they do.  I remember one story of a mayor who was permanently unhappy because she hated rats, so the engraver put images of rats in every one of her rooms and along the hallways, as well.  Essentially permanent "disgusted by" thoughts.

Plus, seriously, who wants to decorate their halls with cockroaches, anyway?

[Scaraban]

Dwarfs get unhappy thoughts by looking at works of things they dislike?

Yes, they do.  I remember one story of a mayor who was permanently unhappy because she hated rats, so the engraver put images of rats in every one of her rooms and along the hallways, as well.  Essentially permanent "disgusted by" thoughts.

Plus, seriously, who wants to decorate their halls with cockroaches, anyway?

dorfs

[Urist Imiknorris]

Spiders.

EDIT: Also cats.