Ahahaha oh friend, you are not nearly the only one!  I’m deeply invested in Garak and Bashir - there is no amount of post-series novel meddling that can take it from me - and I suspect I am not alone in this either!  

Thank you for the lovely compliment~  Hearing things like ‘i like your technique’ makes me feel like fluffing up feathers I don’t have, that’s such a pleasant thing to hear.  (Especially because it’s like some kind of outside confirmation that I have one!  It all just feels like chucking paint at paper to me and I think frequently that any day now I’ll be exposed as some kind of art fraud, despite a degree, haha.)