diff --git a/reference/users/youwen/config/vale/.vale.ini b/reference/users/youwen/config/vale/.vale.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index 6afc6ca..0000000
--- a/reference/users/youwen/config/vale/.vale.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-StylesPath = styles
-
-MinAlertLevel = suggestion
-Vocab = Youwen, Developer
-
-Packages = proselint
-
-[*.{md,typ,tex}]
-# ^ This section applies to only Markdown files.
-#
-# You can change (or add) file extensions here
-# to apply these settings to other file types.
-#
-# For example, to apply these settings to both
-# Markdown and reStructuredText:
-#
-# [*.{md,rst}]
-BasedOnStyles = Vale,proselint
diff --git a/reference/users/youwen/config/vale/styles/config/vocabularies/Developer/accept.txt b/reference/users/youwen/config/vale/styles/config/vocabularies/Developer/accept.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 073a103..0000000
--- a/reference/users/youwen/config/vale/styles/config/vocabularies/Developer/accept.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-[Nn]eovim
-(?i)formatter[s]
-LSP[s]
-(?i)distro[s]
-(?i)nixvim
-(?i)vim
-(?i)nixcats
-(?i)luarocks
-(?i)config
-(?i)keybind[s]
-(?i)spicetify
-(?i)stylix
-(?i)hyprland
-(?i)wayland
-(?i)nvidia
-[Ll]inux
diff --git a/reference/users/youwen/config/vale/styles/config/vocabularies/Youwen/accept.txt b/reference/users/youwen/config/vale/styles/config/vocabularies/Youwen/accept.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 9be0fd7..0000000
--- a/reference/users/youwen/config/vale/styles/config/vocabularies/Youwen/accept.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-(?i)discriminant
-(?i)equivalent
-(?i)typo
-(?i)hence
-(?i)wish
-(?i)matrices
-(?i)phone
-(?i)oops
-(?i)am
-(?i)pm
-(?i)alright
-(?i)spend
-(?i)a lot
-(?i)hyperextensible
-Spotify
-[Yy]ouwen
-[Aa]nanth
-[Ww]arren
-(?i)kaitotlex
-Razer
-(?i)asahi
diff --git a/reference/users/youwen/hm.nix b/reference/users/youwen/hm.nix
index bc12c38..a7d76b6 100644
--- a/reference/users/youwen/hm.nix
+++ b/reference/users/youwen/hm.nix
@@ -64,24 +64,6 @@
     addKeysToAgent = "yes";
   };
 
-  xdg.configFile."vale" = {
-    source = ./config/vale;
-    recursive = true;
-  };
-
-  home.file.".local/share/vale/styles/proselint" = {
-    source = "${
-      pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
-        owner = "errata-ai";
-        repo = "proselint";
-        rev = "v0.3.4";
-        hash = "sha256-iujKf+xc/RDqw4eC/nzpMsHWvwey6U5sjD2yHSiQxP4=";
-        sparseCheckout = [ "proselint" ];
-      }
-    }/proselint";
-    recursive = true;
-  };
-
   # text/html;      ~/.mutt/view_attachment.sh %s html;     test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
   home.file.".mailcap".text = ''
     text/html;      ${pkgs.w3m}/bin/w3m %s;     nametemplate=%s.html;       needsterminal