Hi dear anon! Not weird at all and I'm happy you messaged me! That fic sounds delicious, and tbh I understand your fear--and have felt it before. I had written 70% of Pathology before I started posting it and for the first three weeks, from my twt account with 1 follower (my irl best friend not in skz fandom), it had zero twt interactions. And I mean not even a view on the post, which I didn't care about except I was hoping that might lead to someone reading the thing I made that I was proud of! Then, I linked my twt post in the author's note of chapter 3 within the fic, and some super kind people shared it on twt, which led to more people following me and reading it. So the short answer is: make sure you link your promo post in your author's notes, as twt is a good place for people to easily share fics they've enjoyed by finding new authors through the tags on ao3. Secondly, you can try to tag thoroughly (with 'canon' tags) since lots of people search for fic on ao3 through tags these days! I am Bad at this second thing, but have heard it helps!

The rest of this is just my thoughts on the "write for yourself" thing, so feel free to skip:
I think the "write for yourself" convo sometimes gets taken to one extreme or the other within fandom, and the truth for me lies somwhere in between. On one hand, YES you should be your own target audience, and by writing for fandom we accept a certain 'risk' that our writing may not be for others, who are not obligated to read or comment on it, and so it might not be read or commented on. It's hard to say what "the fandom" might enjoy because it's made up of so many different people! Who like different things!! BUT on the other hand, you want something you put time and effort into to get feedback, because ofc you wrote it for yourself but you POSTED it for interaction, and community, which is what fandom IS! Sometimes, when the target audience of your writing is you (which I stand by 100%), that can mean a lot of people relate and like it, or that not as many people relate and like it. That's the problem with us liking very specific and sometimes disparate things.

In addition to all of that, there is sometimes VERY little correlation between the amount of feedback a fic gets and the 'quality' of that work (whatever that means..... all fandom work is valuable, and popular works must be popular for a reason, but i have dnf'd a few Big Popular fics due to not vibing with the writing, for example, and ADORE and would DIE for fics that don't have very many comments even though they are exquisitely written imo and deserve more praise). I would say another tip is to def focus on the quality of the feedback and not the amount? Alas, this is another part and parcel of being in fandom, which as authors we have to accept as well.

So in conclusion: I don't have one! I try very hard to divest myself of checking 'numbers' because tbh the content of comments matter more to me than anything in the world, but I understand someone thinking "okay well if 2 kudos is a lot and im supposed to imagine 2 lee minhos THEN 10 LEE MINHOS would be EVEN BETTER" because that someone is sometimes me!! I wish you the bestttt of luck regardless and I hope some part of this rant helped at all!