The Daria fandom isn't too bad! It's just...well, it's old, and that means you're going to have a lot of entrenched fanon/opinions that don't always make sense. And a different quality of fic. Outpost Daria is the place to look for fic, but it's very much a browsing experience, so check it out when you've got a lot of spare time.

(Personally, I kind of prefer the Outpost Daria fic to AO3 fic, lol. Daria/Trent is my OTP, while Daria/Jane really doesn't do it for me--"too incestuous" seems to happen to me way too often with femslash ships, sigh, but that's the thing--and AO3 definitely skews towards the latter. My guilty pleasure Daria fic is Diane Long's Daria Continuum. It's Daria/Trent and makes Daria into the woobiest woobie and Monique into a murderous psychobitch whose family just doesn't ~appreciate~ her. It's not great literature by any means, but it's one I can still enjoy the hell out of.)

All this to say that I am glad you're enjoying Daria! It's a fun time, and it's fun to watch it and see how my feelings about it change over time. (My favourite character as an adult is definitely Quinn, which was...not the case back in high school, lol. Man, thinking about this is reminding me that I should continue that Daria/Temeraire crossover I was writing this one time.)

(Also, I will happily take your extra paid vacation, oh my gosh. That sounds so miraculous.)