Skyrim mod community creates GoFundMe to save a life, and you can help

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Skyrim mods are often labours of love, made with little to no expectation of financial gain. They’re made for the simple love of making something. Justin ‘JDAnchor’ Schroeder is a modder with exactly that ethos, and he’s currently battling an rare, complicated, and potentially fatal health condition. But in an awesome display of kindness, players of Bethesda’s RPG game are coming together the raise the funds he needs for a life-saving emergency surgery, via GoFundMe.

If you play Skyrim, there’s a good chance you’ve downloaded, or at least heard about, Justin’s work. For Skyrim alone he has almost 2,000,000 downloads on Nexus Mods, with highlights including the Forgotten Retex Project, the Cloaks of the Nords mod, and the Sigils of Skyrim. These mods are all about retexturing different objects in Skyrim, with Forgotten Retex Project adding new meshes and details to the “often-overlooked objects” in the game.

Justin is currently in hospital in Southern California due to a series of complex and rare disorders stemming from a birth disability in his ears and connected passageways. He was born deaf in one ear as a result, and though he’s struggled with other symptoms from time to time, he’s otherwise been able to live a normal life. That’s until a couple of years ago, when something changed, and his symptoms intensified: Justin has been suffering with sharp ear pain, weekly ear infections, bouts of vertigo, and has even developed asthma – and his condition continues to deteriorate.

“Doctors have not seen this specific situation in any historical record, and are baffled that Justin remains alive and has been doing well most of his life,” Justin’s roommate Christian explains. “Right now it is understood that he needs a surgery