wft does this mean for my mod and why? 

Zip file ebtks-alpha-1.12.2-1.3.3.jar failed to read properly, it will be ignored java.lang.NullPointerException at net.minecraftforge.fml.common.MetadataCollection.parseModMetadataList(MetadataCollection.java:91) at net.minecraftforge.fml.common.MetadataCollection.from(MetadataCollection.java:79) at net.minecraftforge.fml.common.discovery.JarDiscoverer.discover(JarDiscoverer.java:65) at net.minecraftforge.fml.common.discovery.ContainerType.findMods(ContainerType.java:47) at net.minecraftforge.fml.common.discovery.ModCandidate.explore(ModCandidate.java:74) at net.minecraftforge.fml.common.discovery.ModDiscoverer.identifyMods(ModDiscoverer.java:93) at net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Loader.identifyMods(Loader.java:425) at net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Loader.loadMods(Loader.java:566) at net.minecraftforge.fml.client.FMLClientHandler.beginMinecraftLoading(FMLClientHandler.java:232) at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.func_71384_a(Minecraft.java:466) at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.func_99999_d(Minecraft.java:377) at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:123) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:135) at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28)

It means that something is wrong with the way your mod JAR is packaged. I'm not sure specifically but since it mentions MetaDataCollection it seems like it might be related to your mcmod.info file. Perhaps that file has a mistake in it?

fixed, just make sure you have your mcmod.info shit in order