if dylan never did nbk but was still depressed and went to college, would he try and start over and see this as a positive step or would he still be depressed? i know that going to college wont eradicate depression but would it offer him a release from the negativity he was surrounded by for 4 years, slowly making him feel of value?

This Q has been addressed a lot it seems like to me.  Here are two instances it’s been answered before, here and here.

Hey, do you know what gun Dylan used in the library during the shooting? (Sorry if you’ve been asked this before & I love your blog)

Intratec TEC-DC9 (9-mm semi-automatic handgun) attached to a strap slung over his shoulder, Savage 311-D 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun (barrel sawed down to approximately 23 inches, initially half-hidden in Dylan’s cargos).

Dylan favored his TEC 9 handgun while in the library shooting 21 rounds as oppose to his double-barreled sawed off shot gun at only 6 rounds.

Do you think Devon was in love or at least liked Dylan in a romantic way? I know she said she wished she’d told him how much he meant to her but do you think it was in a romantic way?

This was answered quite a few times before.  I guess with the new mentioning in Sue’s book that Devon mentioned to Sue that Dylan placed a kiss on the top of her head after dancing at prom, people are confused again.  The answer is still the same: Dylan and Devon were always a platonic friendship. Dylan’s kiss on the top of her head was one of friendly affection, of gratitude for the dance they had together and also a bit of a wistful, secret goodbye to this girl who had been good to him as a friend.

This is going on the FAQ. 

Is there any information I can read about sarah slater? 11k? Where would it be?

The only thing they maintained was their late-night phone call. It was a ritual. 10:30 at night. Hour, hour and a half. They just talked. Sometimes these conversations got emotional.“Dylan’d be on the phone with Zack or on the Internet,” says Sarah Slater, “and Zack would tell me they were crying about stuff.” 

A-hem. Oooooh, Sue….    I have the urge to call her about now. 😉 

Sarah Slater links:
[Excerpt from here]   [11K Account]   [He was in a lot of pain]

could you reblog or send me a link to that music playlist the last anon was talking about?

The anon mentioned that they created their own playlist based off of the Dylan music posts scattered throughout this blog. You can start here as I have a few links to some of the previous music posts included on it. I may make a Spotify playlist to post here with a compilation of all of Dyl’s music that’s been showcased on E-C as well as carve out a section on the FAQ for his music tastes.

I saw somewhere that Eric called Dyl his “best friend” in the 25 facts about himself or something, but Dylan never once called Eric his best friend, only mentioning him as his “good friend”. Do you think they weren’t as close as everyone thinks?

This is the story in a nutshell: Dylan considered Zack to be his best friend and that relationship really took a strong hold in ‘between 95-97. But that’s not to say that Dylan wasn’t close with Eric, he in fact, considered him a ‘very good friend’ as Dylan described in his Diversion Program Intake Form questionnaire March ‘98.  The thing is, Dylan felt like Zack understand him the most of all the friends he had and the two talked a lot about their feelings and mutual depression and troubles at school.  But then Zach got into a relationship with Devon Adams mid ‘97 which meant less best friend adventures between Zack and Dylan. By the Fall of ‘97, after the locker hacking incident at school, Eric began to disengage from Zack until he was no longer considered part of their three musketeers dude club. Dylan began to pull away even more from Zack as a result of Eric showing more obvious dislike for Zack (ignoring him) and he so, by default, he chose to stick with Eric because Zack’s time was vested in his girlfriend. Eric and Dylan’s bond became tighter and soon became a sympatico business arrangement between the two to begin their plans for NBK after the van theft and their inception into the Diversion program in March ‘98.  It was mostly just the two of them together all the time. And misery loves company.  

But as you can see below from the March ‘98 questionnaire, Dylan still favors Zack his best friend of all time because Dylan scratches out and makes that distinction that Eric is ‘very good friends’. 

Dylan’s Diversion Program Intake Form

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Eric’s Diversion Program Intake Form

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I go into more detail  here , here, here and here .  

P.S. This will all be on the FAQ.