diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0071b60..e69de29 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "org-mode"]
-	path = vendor/org-mode
-	url = https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs/org-mode.git/
-[submodule "tera-mode"]
-	path = vendor/tera-mode
-	url = https://github.com/svavs/tera-mode.git
-[submodule "vendor/org-contrib"]
-	path = vendor/org-contrib
-	url = https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-contrib
diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index 6d7cf98..b3adcb3 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 * My Emacs Configuration
 
 This is my Emacs configuration. It's been written and rewritten and
-refactored and migrated and changed and updated since the late '90s.
+refactored and migrated and changed and updated since the 1990s.
 
 I keep this setup in git because I like to keep it up to date across
 all the computers I use — work laptop, home workstation, home laptop,
@@ -17,40 +17,25 @@ This means that my configuration is a human-readable document that
 puts comments first, and embeds the actual configuration elisp as code
 snippets.
 
-The main file is called [configuration.org](configuration.org), and
-is in =org-mode= format.
+The main file is called [configuration.org](configuration.org), and is
+in =org-mode= format.
 
-Files found in =~/.emacs.d/local= are ignore by Git, but added to
-the load path.
+Files found in =~/.emacs.d/local= (if it exists) are ignore by Git,
+but added to the load path.
 
-Files found in =~/.emacs.d/lisp= are checked into Git, and added to
-the load path.
+** Usage
 
-** Getting Started
+If you already have an .emacs.d directory, make a backup!
 
-The process for bootstrapping all this stuff is complicated
-a little bit by the fact that I use the latest =org-mode=
-as a Git submodule. The full process for getting everything running
-is as follows:
+    : $ mv -f ~/.emacs.d ~/.emacs.d.OLD
 
-*** Clone the Repository
+Then, simply clone the project.
 
     : $ git clone git@github.com:sethm/emacs-files.git ~/.emacs.d
 
-*** Update the =org-mode= and =tera-mode= submodules
-
-    : $ cd ~/.emacs.d
-    : $ git submodule init
-    : $ git submodule update
-
-*** Build =org-mode=
-
-    : $ cd ~/.emacs.d/vendor/org-mode
-    : $ make
-
 ** License
 
-Copyright 1995–2020, Seth J. Morabito <web@loomcom.com>
+Copyright 1995–2022, Seth J. Morabito <web@loomcom.com>
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
diff --git a/configuration.org b/configuration.org
index adbab36..c072de6 100644
--- a/configuration.org
+++ b/configuration.org
@@ -29,32 +29,12 @@ readable prose is ignored by the interpreter or compiler.
 
 The magic here is provided by =org-babel=, which provides a method for
 extracting and evaluating Emacs Lisp expressions inside an =org-mode=
-file.
-
-*There is one more thing:* Emacs comes with a built-in version of Org
-Mode that is usually out of date. Because I like to live on the
-bleeding edge of Org Mode, I provide my own checkout as a git
-submodule. The first two lines of my =init.el= file then add this
-submodule to the load path. This is required to use the submodule
-version of org mode. My =init.el= looks like this, in its entirety:
+file. The only thing needed in the main Emacs init file is this line:
 
 #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-  (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/vendor/org-mode/lisp")
-  (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/vendor/org-contrib/lisp")
-
   (org-babel-load-file "~/.emacs.d/configuration.org")
 #+END_EXAMPLE
 
-To finish the bootstrap, all you need to do is:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-$ cd ~/.emacs.d
-$ git submodule init
-$ git submodule update
-$ cd ~/.emacs.d/org-mode
-$ make
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
 * Basic Setup
 :PROPERTIES:
 :CUSTOM_ID: basic-setup
@@ -1124,20 +1104,6 @@ in the =snippets= directory.
     :config (yasnippet-snippets-initialize))
 #+END_SRC
 
-** Tera Mode
-
-One of my projects uses [[https://tera.netlify.app/][the Tera template language]], so I add
-support here. Unfortunately, ~tera-mode~ is not in ELPA or MELPA,
-so I have it checked out as a sub-module. I also just lazily enable
-~tera-mode~ by hand when I need it.
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
-  (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/vendor/tera-mode")
-  (require 'tera-mode)
-  ;; Set offset for HTML/XML-like things
-  (setq sgml-basic-offset 4)
-#+END_SRC
-
 ** Markdown
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
diff --git a/init.el b/init.el
index 73b8b58..42679c1 100644
--- a/init.el
+++ b/init.el
@@ -5,7 +5,4 @@
 ;;
 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
 
-(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/vendor/org-mode/lisp")
-(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/vendor/org-contrib/lisp")
-
 (org-babel-load-file "~/.emacs.d/configuration.org")
diff --git a/vendor/org-contrib b/vendor/org-contrib
deleted file mode 160000
index b8012e7..0000000
--- a/vendor/org-contrib
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit b8012e759bd5bf5da802b0b41734a8fec218323c
diff --git a/vendor/org-mode b/vendor/org-mode
deleted file mode 160000
index fbff082..0000000
--- a/vendor/org-mode
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit fbff082f733858e547a07ad452b6e3ed61a30099
diff --git a/vendor/tera-mode b/vendor/tera-mode
deleted file mode 160000
index a3a8e37..0000000
--- a/vendor/tera-mode
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit a3a8e37ba169ce00c4a6201aa509555521a99b11