diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index 6e6848e..8b25e1a 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -16,3 +16,6 @@ There are a few things to immediately note:
 - Typing ~qq~ will change your input method. This is sort-of a built-in feature, but the default trigger is to type ~C-\~, which is annoying to press. The ~qq~ behavior is built into Japanese-mode specifically and normally toggles in and out of ~japanese-ascii~, which is literally just normal text except ~qq~ switches back to Japanese.
 * 2022-09-26 12:57 pm
 This is the time of day that I wrote the thing that creates the above heading now. It works it works it works...
+
+_this is underlined_ and that works with electric pairs now... "And" =so=
+does +this and this and+ *not this* either...
diff --git a/lisp/mitch-packages.el b/lisp/mitch-packages.el
index faa9188..4eb1816 100644
--- a/lisp/mitch-packages.el
+++ b/lisp/mitch-packages.el
@@ -471,6 +471,17 @@ targets."
   (add-hook 'after-save-hook
 	    #'(lambda () (if (equal major-mode 'org-mode)
 			(org-babel-tangle))))
+  (setq electric-pair-org-pairs `(
+			     (,(string-to-char "_") . ,(string-to-char "_"))
+			     (,(string-to-char "/") . ,(string-to-char "/"))
+			     (,(string-to-char "*") . ,(string-to-char "*"))
+			     (,(string-to-char "+") . ,(string-to-char "+"))
+			     (,(string-to-char "+") . ,(string-to-char "+"))
+			     (,(string-to-char "=") . ,(string-to-char "="))))
+
+  (dolist (pair electric-pair-org-pairs)
+    (add-to-list 'electric-pair-pairs
+		 pair))
   (require 'mitch-orgstuff)
   :hook
   (org-mode . turn-off-line-numbers)