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By editing the raws and making them all gay. Problem solved as far as babymaking goes. Relationships would still be an issue, though...

It's been a while since I had to deal with corpses like that, but normal garbage dump zones should work. Just to be clear, your garbage dump (not pit/pond) designation has to be next to your prepared hole, not over the hole itself. That will make them stand on the zone and lug stuff marked for dumping down the hole, even though the zone doesn't cover the hole itself.

Indeed, throwing dogs into magma is cruel. I advocate a small pasture with a conveniently placed bridge, instead.

If your game is progressed to the point where you feel bored, I recommend setting up a bunch of parallel cart tracks with some simple control logic so your excess critters can play Frogger for your entertainment.

Mine cart QSPs have two regular stockpiles of appropriate type connected by the hauling cart. As GavJ pointed out, this means that your dwarves can haul to the input pile using wheelbarrows, which speeds things up considerably. Your fort will be cleaned of boulders in no time, and consequently your mason will never decide to drag a lump of cinnabar halfway across the map since there won't be any lying around.

Carts on multiple levels are not required - the dwarves (with wheelbarrows) do all the hauling, the mine cart just moves the stock from the input pile to the QSP, 'compressing' it in the process.

Oh, and the wiki does have step-by-step instructions for a mine cart-based quantum stockpile, so give them a go. All you need is a mine cart and the ability to follow instructions veeeery carefully the first time 

I use 16x16. For no good reason, really - I just curiously, and gently at first, opened the art folder and saw curses_square_16x16 sitting by herself. She was not as tall as her cousins, but handsome enough to look at all the same. Our eyes locked across the void separating us, neither of us willing to blink, fearing it might shatter the moment. She stood up, and, to my dizzy eyes, seemed to almost float across the room into my waiting embrace. I couldn't tell you exactly what happened next, but before I knew it we were in the init folder together, carving our names deep within init.txt.
Sure, some say she lacks detail, or that her features are squashed, but I pretend I don't hear. How could they know, anyway. How could they possibly appreciate, or even understand, the subtlety I see in her typeface metrics. They cannot.

Anyway, I keep promising myself to go through the tileset repo and find something else, but you know how it is.

I don't know where you got the impression that 'everyone' gens to 1050; I certainly never have, myself. When making a medium or bigger world, I'll just set it to 250 or 500 and go do something else for a while. That gets me anywhere between 100 and 500 years, depending on patience and whatever else I have going on that day.

A little bit of civ movement and not too many 'first of their kind'-dwarves is all I ask for, really.

its worth noting that when the elf queen takes a wife the wife is called princess not queen which leads me to think its intentional

It is completely intentional. A previous thread discussing the implementation and mechanics (including a word or two from Toady) can be found here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=140479.msg5472587#msg5472587